Conopodium Koch

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1981, Flora Europaea. Volume 2. Rosaceae to Umbelliferae, Cambridge University Press : 329

22. Conopodium Koch 1

Stock a more or less globose tuber. Subterranean part of stem flexuous. Leaves 2- to 3-pinnate. Sepals absent. Petals white, rarely pink, often with a wide, brown vein on the back, obcordate; apex inflexed. Fruit oblong-ovoid, laterally compressed. Ridges filiform, indistinct; vittae 2-3. Stylopodium more or less attenuate into styles. Cotyledons 2. A taxonomically difficult genus requiring a thorough revision in the Iberian peninsula. The value and reliability of the characters used to separate the species is not clear, although many difficulties could be resolved by field studies and cultivation. 1 Styles deflexed and appressed to the stylopodium in fruit

2 Bracts usually solitary; bracteoles 2 or more 6. thalictrifolium 2 Bracts 0; bracteoles 0-1 7. bunioides 1 Styles erect or patent, or rarely somewhat deflexed, but not appressed to the stylopodium

3 Lower part of stem leafless 1. majus 3 Lower part of stem leafy, with ± persistent leaf-bases

4 Middle and upper cauline leaves with sheath not more than

7 mm and less than | as long as lamina 4. ramosum 4 Middle and upper cauline leaves with sheath usually more than 7 mm and always at least i as long as lamina

5 Lower cauline leaves with ovate or suborbicular, pinnatifid to dentate lobes 2. pyrenaeum 5 Lower cauline leaves with linear, lanceolate or oblong lobes

6 Cauline leaves with linear or lanceolate lobes; bracteoles

0-1 3. bourgaei

6 Cauline leaves with long, linear-setaceous to linear lobes;

bracteoles usually 5 or more 5. capillifolium