Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Cyclospermum leptophyllum
puccio, apio cimarrón, culantro de zopilote, marsh parsley, slim lobe celery
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida (= Dicotyledoneae)
Order
Apiales
Family
Apiaceae
Genus
Cyclospermum
Species
leptophyllum
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Apium leptophyllum (Pers.) F .Muell. ex Benth., Helosciadium leptophyllum (Pers.) DC, fide Royal Botanic Gardens
Origin: Cryptogenic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
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- Guézou, A. Trueman, M., Buddenhagen, E., Chamorro, S., Guerrero, A.M., Pozo, P., Atkinson, R. (2010) An extensive Alien Plan Inventory from the Inhabited Areas of Galapagos Plos One/ www.plosone.org. Volume 5/ Issue 4/e10276
- Hooker, J.D. (1847) An Enumeration of the Plants of the Galapagos Archipelago; with descriptions of those which are new. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 20: 163-233.
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- Porter, D.M. (1983) Vascular Plants of the Galapagos: Origins and Dispersal. In: Bowman, R.I., Berson, M. & Leviton, A.E. (eds.): Patterns of evolution in Galápagos organisms. Pacific Division, AAAS, San Francisco, California, p. 33-96.
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Missouri Botanical Garden (eds.) (2013) The Plant List, Version 1.1. Published on the Internet; http://www.theplantlist.org/ (accessed 1st January).
- Stewart, A. (1911) A botanical survey of the Galápagos Islands. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 4th Series, 1: 7-288.
- Tropicos.org. (2017) Database of Missouri Botanical Garden. Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 06 Oct 2017 <http://www.tropicos.org
- Van der Werff, H.H. (s.a.) Pers. obs. and colls. Personal observations and collections.
- Wiggins, I.L. Porter, D.M. (1971) Flora of the Galapagos Islands Standford University Press, Stanford.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Cyclospermum leptophyllum", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=801. Accessed 31 October 2026.