Petroselinum is a genus of two parsley species of flowering plants in the family Apiaceae, native to western and southern Europe and northern Africa.[1]

Petroselinum
Petroselinum segetum, France
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Apiales
Family: Apiaceae
Subfamily: Apioideae
Tribe: Apieae
Genus: Petroselinum
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Species

Plants of this genus are bright green, hairless, biennial and herbaceous; they are rarely annual plants. In the first year, they form a rosette of pinnate to tripinnate leaves and a tap root used as a food store over the winter. In the second year they grow a flowering stem up to 1 m tall with sparser leaves and umbels of white or pinkish to yellowish-green flowers.[2][3]

Taxonomy

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The generic name comes from rendering the Greek word πετροσέλινον petroselinon "rock-celery" into Latin,[4][5] from πέτρα petra "rock, stone"[6] and σέλινον selinon "celery".[7][1][3] Mycenaean Greek se-ri-no, in Linear B, is the earliest attested form of the word selinon.[8]

Species

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The species of this genus are:

References

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  1. ^ a b The Euro+Med Plantbase Project: Petroselinum
  2. ^ a b Blamey, M. & Grey-Wilson, C. (1989). Illustrated Flora of Britain and Northern Europe. ISBN 0-340-40170-2
  3. ^ a b c Interactive Flora of NW Europe: Petroselinum species list[permanent dead link] and genus description[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879). "petrŏsĕlīnon (-īnum )". A Latin Dictionary. Perseus Digital Library.
  5. ^ Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert (1940). "πετροσέλινον". A Greek-English Lexicon. Perseus Digital Library.
  6. ^ Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert (1940). "πέτρα". A Greek-English Lexicon. Perseus Digital Library.
  7. ^ Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert (1940). "σέλινον". A Greek-English Lexicon. Perseus Digital Library.
  8. ^ "Palaeolexicon". Palaeolexicon. Archived from the original on 13 April 2016. Retrieved 23 July 2018.