松林小芹 song lin xiao qin

Carum pityophilum Diels, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 5: 228. 1912.

Plants 40–70 cm. Rootstock fusiform, 3–3 × ca. 0.5 mm. Stem solitary, 1–2-branched. Basal petioles 1.5–3 cm, sheath broadly ovate; blade triangular in outline, ca. 5 × 5 cm, 3-pinnate; pinnae 6–9 pairs; ultimate segments linear, 2–5 × 0.3–1 mm. Umbels 3.5–6 cm across; bracts absent, occasionally 1, linear, 1–1.5 cm; rays 10–20, 2–4 cm, unequal; bracteoles absent; umbellules 1–1.5 cm across, 12–15-flowered; pedicels 3–5 mm, unequal. Calyx teeth obsolete. Petals white, entire, apex obtuse, outer petals in umbellule slightly radiant. Fruit unknown. Fl. Oct.

Sunny slopes in Pinus forests; 3000–3300 m. NW Yunnan (Lijiang).

This poorly known taxon is recorded only from the type gathering (G. Forrest 3078).