Genus: Apium

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) >  Eudicotyledons >  Core Eudicots >  Asterids >  Euasterid II > Order: Apiales >  Family: Apiaceae

The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution and of the 25 species, 4 occur in southern Africa of which 1, Apium prostratum (Sea Celery), is indigenous. The naturalised species include Celery Apium graveolens.

Publications

• Burtt, B.L. 1991. Umbelliferae of southern Africa: an introduction and annotated checklist. Edinburgh Journal of Botany 48: 133-282.

• Tutin, T.G. 1968. Apium. Flora europaea 2: 351, 352.