Anginon tenuius I.Allison & B.-e.van Wyk

Species

Angiosperms > Apiales > Apiaceae > Anginon

Characteristics

Slender, sparsely branched, woody shrub, up to 1.5 m high; mature parts usually distinctly glaucous. Stems branched at the base, slender and leafless except for the upper parts; petioles persistent below the leafy parts. Leaves relatively uniform; basal leaves triternate with toothed leaflets, upper leaves needle-like, but never junciform, usually with three very short divisions near the apex only, (33-)46-73(-85) mm long; petiole and rachis adaxially grooved; lamina inconspicuous, the segments slender. Inflorescences apical on long shoots, very sparse, with primary and secondary racemes, lateral racemes terminate in compound umbels; scale-leaves 4-8 mm long; rays (20-)24-30(-33) mm long; involucre bracts 2.0-4.0 mm long; involucel bracts ± 1.5 mm long. Flowers with pedicels (3.1-)3.4-4.7(-5.4) mm long; calyx teeth ± 0.2 mm long; petals widely ovate, ± 0.8 x + 0.9 mm, inflexed part ± 0.4 mm long; resin ducts branched; filaments ± 1 mm long, the uppermost ± 0.1 mm inflexed in bud; anthers ± 0.8 mm long; ovary ± 0.6 mm long; stylopodium ± 0.9 mm wide, ± 0.5 mm high; style ± 0.3 mm long. Fruit widely depressed ovate; mericarps more or less rugose, (2.4-)2.6-3.2(-3.7) mm long, (1.4-)1.6-1.9(-2.1) mm broad; resin ducts 6.
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Slender, few-branched shrub to 1.5 m. Leaves 2-pinnatisect, lobes reduced, narrowly cuneate to linear, toothed, petioles persistent. Flowers in few-flowered, lax, compound umbels on slender peduncles, yellow. Fruit subrotund, ridged and wrinkled, mericarps isodiametric, vittae present, rib oil ducts inconspicuous.
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Distribution

Anginon tenuius world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:999752-1
WFO ID wfo-0000536533
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Synonyms

Anginon tenuius