TORILIS L. - HEDGE PARSLEY
Scientific Description:
Annuals (or rarely biennials?). Stems erect, often branched, retrorsely setose or scabrous. Leaves 1−2-pinnate, the ultimate segments entire or toothed. Umbels terminal or leaf-opposed. Petals white to pinkish, with inflexed apices, usually small, sometimes radiant. Fruit linear-cylindric to ovoid, spiny with spines arranged along the secondary ridges, though this is not clear in some species when examined with a lens or with the naked eye; fruit monomorphic or mericarps sometimes heteromorphic.
Reference:
Cullen J (1972). Torilis Adans., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinurgh, 4: 518.
Public Description:
Torilis is a genus of annual or rarely biennial plants, commonly known as “hedge parsley”, and is native to Eurasia and North Africa. There are approximately 9 species in the world and 9 species (13 taxa) in Türkiye. They have white to pinkish flowers.
References:
Anonymous 1 (2017). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torilis, Accessed date: 27.05.2017.
Anonymous 2 (2017). http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Apiaceae/Torilis/, Accessed date: 27.05.2017.
Menemen Y (2012). Torilis L., 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. 81–82.
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