| This is Overview: 1. sp. pl. ed. 1:250.1753. Biennial or perennial herb, usually thick cone-shaped taproot. Stems erect, cylindrical, often hollow, glabrous or hairy. Multifidus leaves three plumes split or pinnate, the lobes wide or narrow, serrated teeth or shallow teeth, less margin entire; petiole enlargement into the sheath tubular or cystic. Complex umbel, apical and lateral; least number of bracts and the majority of small bracts, entire, scarce; umbrella spoke majority of at least number; gray ribbon of green, thin pink or purple; calyx teeth often not obvious; petals ovate to obovate, tapering to the top, and the recessed into the uvula-chip, on the back of hairless, a rare hair; style base oblate cone to cushion styles short to slender, carried out or bent. Fruit ovoid to oblong, smooth or pubescent, the back edge and ridge-shaped, like threat, a little bulge, side edge a wide or narrow wing-like, two minutes when the mature fruit apart from each other; sub-fruit cross-section a half months shape, each edge slot tubing 2 to 1 to a number of pipeline, Hopson surface. Endosperm ventral surface flat or slightly concave; the carpel handle 2 crack to the base. This is about 80, most of the production in the north temperate zone and New Zealand. China has 26 kinds of variants of a variant, located in the north and south, the main producing northeast, northwest and southwest regions. This is there are many medicinal plants, drugs commonly used, such as angelica, Angelica, independent living. Some species for food or feed can also be extracted aromatic oil. This is the type species: forest Angelica angelicasilvestrisl. |