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Aphanes Aphanes, or Parsley-piert, is a genus from the Rose family Rosaceae. A study from 2003 (see Rosoideae) indicates that Aphanes may belong to the genus Alchemilla, commonly called Lady's-mantle. These are slender, annual prostrate herbs, much-branched with deeply lobed leaves on short petioles ( = leaf stalks). They are pilose ( = covered with soft hair). Tiny green to yellow flowers without petals, grow in clusters in the denticulate leaflike stipules. They grow in Europe and Western Asia. Field Parsley-piert is sometimes used as a herbal remedy against kidney and bladder calculi. It acts as a potent diuretic and antilithic. Species - Aphanes arvensis : Field Parsley-piert, Western Ladys-mantle, Parsley Breakstone
- Aphanes australiana : Australian Piert
- Aphanes inexpectata : Slender Parsley-piert
- Aphanes microcarpa (= Aphanes inexpectata): Slender Parsley-piert, Smallseed Ladys-mantle
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