Perennial herbs, stoloniferous, glabrous. Leaves pinnate; petioles sheathing at base. Inflorescence terminal and axillary or often a leaf-opposed compound umbel; bracts narrow; rays few and spreading; bracteoles conspicuous; pedicels spreading. Flowers bisexual, white; sepals minute, subulate; petals obovate with narrow inflexed apex; nectary conical. Fruit more or less orbicular, laterally compressed; mericarps with 5 slender ribs; carpophore split to base.
2 species, from the Northern Hemisphere and Africa; 1 naturalised in Australia.
Source:
Duretto, M.F. (1999). Apiaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 256–258. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
