Afroligusticum thodei (T.H.Arnold) P.J.D.Winter

Perennial herb, robust, erect, sturdy, variously scabrid (rarely glabrous), up to 2 m high. Stems terete, sulcate, green to purplish red, hollow, branched; lower branches alternate, upper branches opposite or whorled. Lower leaves up to 0.6 m long, 3-pinnate, triangular in outline, lobes 20-60 mm long, 10-20 mm wide, lanceolate-acuminate, irregularly dentate to lacerate; petioles with well-developed sheaths, purplish red, striate, scabrid along veins; upper cauline leaves similar but smaller with petioles sheath-like. Inflorescence with terminal umbel largest; peduncle 5-20 mm long, ± scabrid; lateral umbels smaller, opposite or whorled, peduncles 17-65 mm long, ± scabrid. Rays 12-36, ± scabrid, 9-36 mm long. Bracts 8-13, persistent, linear, unequal, 2-6 mm long. Umbellules 11-25-flowered, pedicels 2-13 mm long. Bracteoles 6-9, linear, unequal, 0.5-3.2 mm long. Flowers bisexual, lateral umbels seldom producing mature fruits. Sepals rudimentary, triangular, 0.2-0.6 mm long. Petals yellowish green, ovate with long inflexed apices. Stamens 5. Stylopodium prominent, conical; style short divided. Mature fruits ovate to elliptical, 5-6 mm long, 3.5-4.0 mm broad, with 3(5) prominent abaxial ridges on each mericarp; lateral wings poorly developed, 0.4-0.6 mm wide, thickened, not conspicuously flattened, surface somewhat smooth, shiny and leathery. Oil ducts 2 ventral and 4 dorsal in furrows between ridges in each mericarp.