Bunium elegans

Bunium elegans is a species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae found in Syria and Lebanon. A specimen is kept at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris.[3] The plant contains essential oils.[4]

Bunium elegans
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Apiales
Family: Apiaceae
Genus: Bunium
Species:
B. elegans
Binomial name
Bunium elegans
(Fenzl) Freyn, 1892[1]
Synonyms
  • Bunium elegans var. involucratum Saya
  • Bunium elegans var. latilobum Saya
  • Bunium elegans var. pachypus Saya
  • Bunium falcarioides Boiss. & Buhse
  • Bunium paucifolium var. brevipes (Freyn & Sint.) Hedge & Lamond
  • Bunium simplex (K.Koch) Klyuikov
  • Carum elegans Fenzl[2]
  • Carum falcarioides Boiss. & Buhse
  • Carum noeanum Boiss.
  • Carum paucifolium DC.
  • Carum purpurascens Boiss.

References
  1. Oesterreichische Botanische Zeitschrift. Gemeinnütziges Organ für Botanik. volume 13, page 83, 1892
  2. Fenzl Pug. Pl. Nov. Syr. 16 1842
  3. Specimen at Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris
  4. Chemical Composition of the Essential Oils of Bunium elegans and Bunium caroides. Chemistry of Natural Compounds, 41(4), July 2005, doi:10.1007/s10600-005-0165-0


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