Family: Asteraceae
Anthemis
Citation:
L., Sp. Pl. 893 (1753).
Derivation: Latin anthemis, a name used by Pliny for a species of chamomile, from the Greek anthemon, flower.
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Chamomiles.
Description:
Annual herbs; leaves cauline, alternate, finely dissected.
Capitula solitary or few in a loose corymb, terminal, long-pedunculate, radiate, heterogamous; involucres hemispherical; bracts herbaceous with wide scarious margins, imbricate in 2 or 3 subequal series; receptacle steeply conical with conspicuous narrow scales; ray florets female or neuter, uniseriate, ligulate, white; style branches linear with papillose apices or absent; disk florets tubular, 5-merous, bisexual, fertile; corolla narrowly campanulate, yellow; anthers obtuse at the base with ovate apical appendages; style branches broadly linear, truncate with papillose apices.
Achenes all similar, obovoid, symmetrically 4- or 5-angled, ribbed, glabrous; pappus a minute crown or border at the apex.
Distribution:
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130 species native to Europe, the Mediterranean region and southwestern Asia.
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Biology:
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Key to Species:
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1. Plant hardly aromatic when crushed; achenes smoothly ribbed |
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A. arvensis 1. |
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1. Plant foetid when crushed; achenes tuberculate |
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A. cotula 2. |
Author:
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