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Seseli aemulans M. Pop.

大果西风芹

Description from Flora of China

Plants 40–50 cm, polycarpic. Caudex branched. Stems several, dichotomously branched from base or above, solid, finely grooved, glabrous. Basal leaves numerous, petiolate; blade ovate-oblong or oblong, 4–10 × 2–4.5 cm, 2-pinnatisect; pinnae short-petiolulate; ultimate segments linear-filiform, 5–25 × 0.5–1.1 mm, glabrous, margins revolute, apex apiculate. Cauline leaves few, reduced above becoming subsessile, blade 3-parted, segments linear, elongate. Synflorescence paniculate, much-branched; umbels 1–2.5 cm across; bracts absent or 1–5, ovate, minute, margin scarious; rays 2–6, 4–14 mm, unequal, spreading, squarrose; bracteoles 6–10, ovate, triangular-lanceolate or lanceolate-subulate, ca. 2 × 0.5–1 mm, connate at base for half their length, abaxially puberulous; umbellules 6–12-flowered; pedicels 1.5–3 mm. Calyx teeth obsolete. Petals white or pale yellow, costa yellow-brown, abaxially pubescent. Stylopodium conic; styles reflexed. Fruit ovoid or ellipsoid, apex narrow, dorsally compressed, 6–7(–10) × 3–4(–6) mm, puberulous or sparsely pilose; vittae 1 in each furrow, 2 on commissure. Fl. Aug, fr. Sep.

Dry or gravelly slopes, dry pebbly stream beds; ca. 1000 m. Xinjiang (Tian Shan) [Kazakhstan].


 

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