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Berula erecta (Toothache root, Giant water parsnip)

Tandpynwortel [Afrikaans]; ibophwani [Zulu]

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 only species in the genus. Has an almost cosmopolitan distribution which includes southern Africa.

See KwaZulu-Natal wild flowers by Elsa Pooley p. 296; Wild Flowers of the Highveld by Braam van Wyk and Sasa Malan p. 94; Karoo wildflowers by David Shearing & Katryn van Heerden p. 110.

Publications

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

 

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