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

Species

Angiosperms > Apiales > Apiaceae > Anginon

Characteristics

Robust, sparsely branched, woody shrub, up to 4 m high; mature parts green, 'not glaucous. Stems usually branched at the base, slender and leafless except for the upper parts of plant. Leaves relatively uniform; basal leaves biternate with toothed leaflets; upper leaves needle-like, divided into 3 almost equal, slender junciform segments, (186-)239-318(-346) mm long; petiole : rachis adaxially grooved; lamina totally absent. Inflorescences apical on long shoots, with congested primary and/or secondary racemes; lateral racemes terminate in compound umbels, mostly with numerous condensed sterile scale-leaves; scale-leaves 2-3 mm long; rays (10-)13-19(-22) mm long; involucre bracts 1.5-2.5 mm long involucel bracts (1.3-)1.4-1.8(-2.1) mm long. Flowers with pedicels (2.7-)3.2-4.3(-5.2) mm long; calyx teeth (0.3-0.4-0.6 mm long; petals very widely ovate, 1.2(-1.3) x 0.9(-1.3) mm. inflexed part (0.5-)0.6-0-8(0.9) mm long; resin ducts branched; filaments (1.0)1.1-1.5 (-1.9) mm long, the uppermost 0.1-0.2 mm flexed in bud; anthers (0.7-0.8-0.9 mm long; (0.9-)1.0-1.3 (-1.4) mm long; stylopodium (1.2-)1.3-1.6 (-1.7) mm wide, (0.5-)0.6-0.8 (-0.9) mm high (0.1-)0.2(-0.3) mm long. Fruit widely obovate; meri-carps more or less tuberculate, (2.8-)2.9-3.7(-4.0) mm long, (1.0-)1.2-1.6(-1.9) mm broad; resin ducts (6-)8-12.
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Like A. difforme but leaves grooved above and equally 3-sect.
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Distribution

Anginon ternatum world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:999749-1
WFO ID wfo-0000536534
COL ID DZ8N
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Synonyms

Anginon ternatum