Melanosciadium H.Boissieu

Genus

Angiosperms > Apiales > Apiaceae

Characteristics

Herbs perennial, stout. Taproot elongate. Stem erect, much branched, purplish. Leaves long petiolate, sheaths membranous, purplish; blade 2-ternate, glabrous except veins and rachis densely pilose. Leaves reduced upwards, blade becoming 3-lobed. Inflorescence branching, umbels compound, terminal and lateral, rather small; bracts several, caducous; bracteoles several, persistent; rays and pedicels densely hispidulous with purplish hairs. Calyx teeth obsolete or minute, triangular. Petals dark purple, suborbicular, apex notched, with a narrow incurved tip. Ovary granular-puberulent. Stylopodium low-conic, dark purple, margin undulate; styles purple, reflexed. Fruit subglobose, compressed laterally, surface roughened, appearing granular; ribs 5, prominent; vittae 2–4 in each furrow, 6 on commissure. Seed face nearly plane. Carpophore 2-cleft to base.
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Growth form herb
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Distribution

Melanosciadium world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:40236-1
WFO ID wfo-4000023594
COL ID 5NJT
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Synonyms

Melanosciadium

Lower taxons

Melanosciadium bipinnatum Melanosciadium genuflexum Melanosciadium pimpinelloideum