Bupleurum alatum R.H.Shan & M.L.Sheh

Species

Angiosperms > Apiales > Apiaceae > Bupleurum

Characteristics

Plants ca. 20 cm, perennial. Root slender, pale brown, little-branched. Stems several, slender, erect, base without fibrous remnant sheath. Lower leaves sessile, clasping; blade oblong-lanceolate, ca. 20 × 2.5 mm, nerves 11–13, apex acuminate. Middle leaves elliptic-lanceolate, apex obtuse-acute. Umbels 2–5 cm across, lax; bracts 2–3, elliptic, 7–10 × 1.8–3 mm, 5–7-nerved, apex acute or acuminate; rays of terminal umbel 3, 2–5 cm, unequal, rays of lateral and lower umbels 1–2, ca. 2 cm; bracteoles 3–5, linear-lanceolate, 4–5 × 1.2–1.5 mm, shorter than umbellules in fruit; umbellules 3–8 mm across, (4–)8–10-flowered; pedicels 1–2.5 mm. Petals yellow. Stylopodium low-conic, dark yellow. Fruit oblong, ca. 5 × 2 mm; ribs all broadly winged, equal; vittae 1 in each furrow, 2 on commissure. Fl. and fr. Aug–Sep.
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Distribution

Bupleurum alatum world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:839021-1
WFO ID wfo-0000575024
COL ID NVKH
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Synonyms

Bupleurum alatum