Sanicula 山芹菜屬
型態特徵
Herbaceous caulescent or acaulescent, scapose or branching, glabrous or pubescent, biennials or perennials from taproots, rootstocks, tubers or fascicled fibrous roots. Leaves membranaceous to subcoriaceous, palmately 3–5 lobed or rarely pinnately lobed, the segments toothed, lobed or dissected. Umbels irregularly compound; rays few; involucres entire or lobed; bracts longer or shorter than the rays. Flowers unisexual or polygamous; perfect flowers interior, sessile; staminate flowers usually stalked, exterior; calyx-teeth prominent; petals spathulate to ovate, with narrow inflexed apices; styles filiform, shorter or longer than the calyx-lobes, spreading, recurved, the stylopodium lacking or flattened and disc-like. Fruit globose or oblong-ovoid, somewhat compressed laterally, densely covered with prickles, spines or tubercles; ribs obscure; carpohore wanting; carpels subterete. Vittae 5 or more, usually obscure. Seed-face plane or sulcate.
About 40 species, widely distributed throughout the world, except in Australia and New Zealand. Two species in Taiwan.
