Pimpinella pruatjan Molk.

Perennial. Stems several, 5-50 cm, ascending, sometimes spreading, rooting and forming rosettes, terete, striate, puberulous when young, later glabrescent. Leaves mostly in rosettes; petioles to 10 cm; sheaths to 3 cm; lamina imparipinnate, leaflets usually 5, rarely to 11 or only 1, 1-2½ cm, sessile or subsessile, roundly cordate, crenate-serrate to bicrenate-serrate, or slightly lobed; upper leaves shorter petioled and smaller, leaflets less densely incised with narrower more acute segments; all sparingly hairy above, densely so beneath in the youth, later glabrescent. Umbels terminal to the stems and branches, often seemingly opposite the leaves; peduncles 1-7 cm; rays 4-8, 7-25 mm; pedicels 4-8, 1-4 mm; involucres 3-6, nearly filiform; involucels 3-6, nearly filiformous, shorter than the pedicels. Petals nearly1 by 1 mm, with inflexed tips. Mericarps nearly 2 by 1 mm, warty.

Sunny or slightly shaded locations, in grasslands, in Casuarina forests, along pathways and stream banks, sometimes on steep slopes; at elevations from 1,800-3,300 metres.

Uses. Roots medicinal as a diuretic.

Can be grown by seedlings.