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1. Scandix stellata Banks & Solander in Russell, Nat. Hist. Aleppo ed. 2. 2: 249. 1794.

针果芹 zhen guo qin

Scandix pinnatifida Ventenat; Scandicium stellatum (Banks & Solander) Thellung.

Plants 10–30 cm high. Leaf blade ovate, to 6 × 3 cm; ultimate segments 2–11 × ca. 0.5 mm. Rays 1–3, short, 3–8 mm; bracteoles conspicuously pinnate, 4–10 mm. Flowers subsessile, 5–14 per umbellule. Fruit 16–28 mm; beak long, 1.5–3 times as long as the seed-bearing part; seed-bearing part covered with coarse white bristles.

Grassy slopes, waste places, roadsides; ca. 2000 m. Xinjiang (Tian Shan) [widespread in C and SW Asia and the Mediterranean region].


 

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