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Afrosciadium magalismontanum (Sond.) P.J.D.Winter

Species

Angiosperms > Apiales > Apiaceae > Afrosciadium

Characteristics

A herb. It grows 1 m high. The stem has fine ribs. The leaves are mostly in tufts at the base. They are 30 cm long including the stalks. They are more broad at the base and the leaf blade is repeatedly divided. The last segments are narrow. The flowers are in groups of 6 clusters on long stalks about 9 cm long. The flowers are yellow. The fruit are oval and flattened. The edges are thickened. They are 1.2 cm long by 8 mm wide. The seeds are narrow and oblong.
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Perennial herb. Flowering stems up to 0.8 m high; erect from a rootstock covered with fibrous old leaf bases. Leaves radical, compound; blade bipinnatisect; segments deeply pinnatifid, lobes linear, apices acute. Flowers: involucral bracts present; yellow; Oct.-Feb. Fruit dorsally flattened, ribbed, wing narrow.
Perennial herb, 0.8 m high. Leaves bipinnatisect, segments deeply pinnatifid, lobes linear-oblong, acute. Flowers yellow.
Distinguished from A. caffrum and A. platycarpum by the absence of bracteoles (involucel bracts).
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.8
Root system fibrous-root
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Environment

It is a subtropical plant. It grows on open grassy slopes.
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Soil humidity 1-3
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

The leaves are eaten as a potherb.
Uses medicinal potherb
Edible leaves shoots stems
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Cultivation

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Images

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Distribution

Afrosciadium magalismontanum world distribution map, present in eSwatini and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77090182-1
WFO ID wfo-0000508338
COL ID 65HH9
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Synonyms

Afrosciadium magalismontanum Peucedanum magalismontanum Peucedanum schlechterianum
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