Description
Product Description
It grows throughout the tropical and sub-tropical parts in India. It is cultivated throughout India chiefly in Punjab, Uttar-Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Assam and West Bengal. It is sometimes found growing as a weed of cultivation and even as an escape in irrigated fields.
It is an annual, glabrous, aromatic herb, grows up to 1.2 m in height. The leaves are decompound and ultimate segments filiform. Flowers are pale yellow in compound umbels. Fruits are sub-elliptical, dorsally compressed, glabrous, with 3 longitudinal ridges, winged, with 2 mericarps. The mericarps remain joined together even under stored conditions. Vittae with marginal walls appear irregularly and have thickenings near the angles.
