Apiaceae

Herbs or small shrubs; epigynous disc usually swelling at the base of the styles on the fruit Apiaceae

Leaves and bracts never pungent pointed

Flowers numerous, crowded, surrounded by radiating involucral bracts exceeding the flowers, the whole resembling a head. Fruit undivided Actinotus

Flowers not arranged as in Actinotus with the bracts seldom exceeding the flowers. Fruit a schizocarp