Apium

Real celery ( Apium graveolens )

Celery ( Apium ) is a genus in the family of Umbelliferae ( Apiaceae ) with 30 species. In particular, the True celery is as useful and medicinal plant use.

Description

Celery is a one or two perennial herbaceous plant. The shoot axis is bare, upright, toothed and grooved. The root system consists of a taproot often thickened and thin secondary roots. Some species also train horizontally extending rhizomes, from which sprout thin roots.

The pinnate, alternate permanent leaves are stalked with häutchenartigen leaf sheaths.

The inflorescences are loose to approximately compact, wenigstrahlige clusters of a few individual flowers. They are usually short -stalked.

Calyx teeth are missing. The petals are white or greenish- yellow. They are ovate to almost round, with tapered, incised tip. The pens are thickened short and conical bottom.

The gap fruits are spherical or ellipsoidal and rounded at both ends and pushed to the side. You are clearly 5 - Rippig. The seeds are flat.

The chromosome number is 2n = 22

Dissemination

The genus is widespread in both hemispheres in the temperate zones, but mainly in the northern hemisphere. In the tropics, small deposits were found only in the mountains.

Use

As vegetable and medicinal plant mainly Genuine celery used. Celery was used in ancient Greece as a food.

Etymology

The name Celery is borrowed from the Lombard Selleri, the plural of Sellero. There comes via the late Latin Selinum selinon of Greek, σέλινον from.

Types (selection)

The genus celery ( Apium ) is part of the carrot family ( Apiaceae ) and is placed in the subfamily Apioideae. Molecular genetic studies in 2000 revealed, however, that the genus is not monophyletic but probably would have to be grouped with the closely related genera Berula and Naufraga.

As of today, including 30 species of the genus. These are:

  • Apium andinum Phil
  • Apium angustilobum Rich
  • Apium annum Short
  • Apium apioides Rich
  • Apium australe Thouars
  • Apium bermejoi L. Llorens
  • Apium butleri S. Watson
  • Apium commersonii DC.
  • Apium decumbens Eckl. & Zeyh.
  • Apium divaricatum Benth. & Hook. f ex S. Watson
  • Apium echinatum Benth. & Hook. f ex S. Watson
  • Apium fernandezianum Johow
  • Apium flexuosum Phil
  • Real celery ( Apium graveolens L.) is wild in Europe, North Africa and the Middle - to Central Asia before
  • Apium humile Rich
  • Flood Ender celery ( Apium inundatum Rchb. F ), occurs only in Europe
  • Apium laciniatum ( DC.) Urb.
  • Feinblättriger celery ( Apium leptophyllum ( Pers.) F. Muell. Ex Benth. )
  • Apium ligula Drude
  • Knotenblütiger celery ( Apium nodiflorum (L.) Lag ), arrives in Europe, Western Asia to Central Asia, North Africa and naturalized in North and South America before
  • Apium panul rich, occurs in Chile
  • Apium patens ( Nutt. ex DC. ) S. Watson
  • Apium peucedanoides Rich
  • Apium philippii H. Wolff
  • Apium pimpinellifolium Rich
  • Apium popei ( Torr. & A. Gray ) A. Gray
  • Apium prostratum Vent., Occurs in Australia, New Zealand and South America
  • Crawling celery ( Apium repens Lag.), occurs only in Europe
  • Apium sellowianum H. Wolff
  • Apium ventricosum H. Boissieu
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