Apium
Apium is a genus, as currently circumscribed by Plants of the World Online, of 12 species of flowering plants in the family Apiaceae, with an unusual highly disjunct distribution with one species in the temperate Northern Hemisphere in the Western Palaearctic (Europe, western Asia, north Africa), and the rest in the temperate Southern Hemisphere in southern Africa, southern South America, Australia, and New Zealand. They are prostrate to medium-tall annual, biennial or perennial herbs growing up to 1 m high in wet soil, often marshes and salt marshes, and have pinnate to bipinnate leaves and s
Species
marshworts
Genus
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderApiales
- FamilyApiaceae
Habitatbrackish
Native toAfghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Amsterdam-St.Paul Is., Antipodean Is., Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Belgium
Sellerie (Apium) ist eine Pflanzengattung innerhalb der Familie der Doldenblütler (Apiaceae). Die 17 bis 30 Arten sind hauptsächlich in den gemäßigten Gebieten der Nordhalbkugel verbreitet. Insbesondere der Echte Sellerie (Apium graveolens), meist einfach Sellerie genannt, findet als Nutz- und Heilpflanze Verwendung.
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Apium is a genus, as currently circumscribed by Plants of the World Online, of 12 species of flowering plants in the family Apiaceae, with an unusual highly disjunct distribution with one species in the temperate Northern Hemisphere in the Western Palaearctic (Europe, western Asia, north Africa), and the rest in the temperate Southern Hemisphere in southern Africa, southern South America, Australia, and New Zealand. They are prostrate to medium-tall annual, biennial or perennial herbs growing up to 1 m high in wet soil, often marshes and salt marshes, and have pinnate to bipinnate leaves and small white flowers in compound umbels. Some species are edible, notably Apium graveolens, which is the wild ancestor of the commercially important vegetables celery, celeriac and leaf celery.
The genus is the type genus of the family Apiaceae and the order Apiales; the type species of the genus is Apium graveolens.