Apium bermejoi [SEP] IUCN conservation status
Apium bermejoi
Apium bermejoi is a critically endangered species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae. It is not closely related to the wild form of celery, "A. graveolens", being more properly placed in the genus "Helosciadium" in the tribe Oenantheae. "A. bermejoi" is now endemic to a single location in the northeast part of Menorca in the Balearic Islands of Spain. Across two populations, there are fewer than a hundred individuals surviving.
Its natural habitat is Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation.
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Chinese celery. "Apium bermejoi" from the island of Menorca is one of the rarest plants in Europe, with fewer than 100 individuals left.
The genus is the type genus of the family Apiaceae and the order Apiales.
Species include:
- "Apium annuum"
- "Apium australe"
- "Apium bermejoi"
- "Apium fernandezianum" - johow
- "Apium filiforme"
- "Apium graveolens" - celery, wild celery
- "Apium inundatum" - lesser marshwort