Crithmum
Genus of flowering plant in the carrot family
Crithmum
Crithmum is a monospecific genus of flowering plants in the carrot family, Apiaceae. It currently consists of just one species, Crithmum maritimum, but when it was originally published by Linnaeus (in Species Plantarum vol. 1, p. 246) he included two species. The other, listed as C. pyrenaicum, is now called Libanotis pyrenaica or Seseli libanotis. Modern accounts usually separate rock samphire into a separate genus. It is distinguished from Seseli (Libanotis) by the yellow (not white) flowers and from Silaum by its fleshy leaves and four (not 0-3) bracts. Other plants that have been included within the genus include: Cenolophium fischeri, Baltic parsley, which was named Crithmum campestre by Anton Johann von Güldenstädt in Bieberstein's Flora Taurico-Caucasica in 1819, but is currently assigned to its own genus. Astydamia latifolia, which was listed by Carl Linnaeus the Younger as Crithmum latifolium in 1782. Silaum silaus, which was called Crithmum silaus by C.A. Wiebel in 1799. The...
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