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Apium graveolens L.
Family Apiaceae
Common name: Celery

Apium graveolens L. APNI*

Description: Erect biennial to 1 m high, with ribbed stems, aromatic, glabrous.

Leaves usually 1-pinnate, upper leaves much smaller; leaflets 3–5, ovate-cuneate, to 5 cm long, each ± deeply 3-lobed, with crenate to toothed margins.

Umbels 3–4 cm diam., sessile or subsessile with 4–8 unequal rays. Petals 0.5–0.7 mm long, white.

Fruit broadly ovoid, 1.5–2.5 mm long; mericarps with 5 slender whitish ribs.


Flower
Photo A. J. Perkins

Other photo
Photo A. J. Perkins

Herbarium
Sheet

Flowering: September–January

Distribution and occurrence: Cultivated as a vegetable, recorded as naturalized from the Picton-Campbelltown area and from near Lake Cargelligo. Native of Europe.
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *CC, *ST, *SWS, *SWP, *LHI
Other Australian states: *Qld *Vic. *Tas. *S.A.
AVH map***

Text by S. M. Hastings & J. M. Powell (1994)
Taxon concept: P.S. Green (1994)


APNI* Provides a link to the Australian Plant Name Index (hosted by the Australian National Botanic Gardens) for comprehensive bibliographic data
***The AVH map option provides a detailed interactive Australia wide distribution map drawn from collections held by all major Australian herbaria participating in the Australian Virtual Herbarium project.
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