SMYRNIUM(L.) Caddick & WilkinYABANİKEREVİZ (in Turkish)

SMYRNIUM(L.) Caddick & Wilkin - YABANİKEREVİZ (in Turkish)

Scientific Description:

Biennials with a fusiform taproot not crowned by a fibrous collar. Basal leaves 2−4-ternate-pinnate. Upper leaves alternate or opposite. Inflorescence muchbranched; bracts and bracteoles usually absent. Flowers hermaphrodite; sepals obsolete; petals yellow. Fruit ± ovoid. Mericarps subdidymous, curved from apex to base, dark brown to black; three dorsal ridges ± prominent; valleculae and commissures multivittate.

Reference:
Stevens PF (1972). Smyrnium L., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinurgh, 4: 337.

Public Description:

Smyrnium, is a genus of biennial herbs, commonly known as “yabanikereviz” in Turkish, and is native to Mediterranean and Europe. There are 9 species in the world and 7 species (7 taxa) in Türkiye. They have yellow flowers and fusiform taproots.

References:

Anonymous (2018). http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Apiaceae/Smyrnium/, Erişim Tarihi: 03.02.2018.

Stevens PF (1972). Smyrnium L.In: Davis, P.H. (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands. Edinburgh University Press. Edinburgh, 4: 337.

Sağıroğlu M (2012). Smyrnium (L.) Caddick & Wilkin, In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 79–80.