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Common Names
Safed Zira
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Taxonomy
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TAXON
Cuminum cyminum L.
FAMILY
Apiaceae Lindl.
ALTERNATE FAMILY
nom. cons.
GENUS
Cuminum L.
SPECIES
cyminum L. Sp. pl. 1:254. 1753
Plant Description
Plants slender, 15-30 cm tall, branched. Leaves much divided into filiform segments. Involucre of 5-6 linear, entire or ternate bracts with linear segments. Rays 3-6, 5 mm to 1 cm long. Involucel of long linear, white margined bractlets, 5-10 mm long. Calyx teeth prominent, acute, persistent. Petals rose coloured, unequal. Fruit oblong, 5-6 mm long, setulose; stylopodium conical; styles short, erect; vittae solitary under the secondary ridges; commissure 2-vittate
