Cuminum cyminum L. (syn: Cuminia cyminum J.F.Gmel.; Cuminum aegyptiacum Merat ex DC.; Cuminum cyminum subsp. hispanicum (Mérat ex DC.) Lange; Cuminum hispanicum Merat ex DC.; Cuminum odorum Salisb.; Cuminum officinale Garsault; Cuminum sativum J.Smith; Cuminum sudanense H.Wolff; Cyminon longeinvolucellatum St.Lag.; Ligusticum cuminum (L.) Crantz; Luerssenia cyminum (L.) Kuntze; Selinum cuminum (L.) E.H.L.Krause);
Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Jordania, Sinai peninsula, Java (I), China (I)
(Xinjiang (I)), India (I), Kazakhstan (I), Uzbekistan (I), Azerbaijan (I),
Bhutan (I), Afghanistan (I), France (I), Spain (I), Sicily (I), Andamans (I),
Nicobars (I), Myanmar [Burma] (I), Nepal (I),
Laos (I), Vietnam (I), Pakistan
(I),
USA (I) (Massachusetts (I), Texas (I)), Bolivia (I), Benin (I)
as per Catalogue of Life;

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Apiaceae member I’d request :: YS MAR20 – 01 : 4 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (5)

This is a small herb (12 – 13 cm high) of family Apiaceae shot along wheat field borders. Leaves are highly dissected into thin needle like leaflets.
Please help to identify this sp.
Place of Photo – Panipat, Haryana
Date – 08th March, 2020


I tried check at comparative images at Apiaceae, but could not find a match.
Pl. check Trachyspermum ammi (L.) Sprague, but I am not satisfied.


This is Cuminum cyminum L. as it was suggested by … 


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