Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 246 (1753).

Synonymy: F. nodiflora L., Sp. Pl. 247 (1753); F. communis L. subsp. nodiflora (L.)Arcang., Compl. Fl. ltal. edn 2:609 (1894).

Common name: Common giant fennel.

Description:
Fruit brown, ovate-oblong, 12-15 mm long, c. 10 mm broad; commissure covered by a scurfy pubescence; mericarps with 6 vittae (4 below the furrows and 2 on the commissure).

Upper leaves of the inflorescence progressively reduced to conspicuous sheathing bases; umbels at the summit of stout rigid spreading-erect branches, 11-14 cm long; the lower branches alternate, the uppermost sometimes whorled; terminal compound umbel more or less sessile, surpassed by 2 long-pedunculate lateral umbels which may themselves have secondary lateral umbels; involucre absent; rays of terminal umbel 12-40; involucel of a few linear-lanceolate deciduous bracteoles; umbellules with c. 10 slender rays.

Published illustration: Zohary (1972) Flora Palaestina 2:t. 633.

Distribution:  On waste-land, along roadsides in settled districts.   Vic..   Native in the Mediterranean region. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Aug. — Sept.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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