Peucedanum in Flora of Pakistan @ efloras.org

Peucedanum Linn., Sp. Pl. 245. 1753. Gen. Pl. ed. 5. 116. 1754; Boiss., Fl. Or. 2: 1014. 1872; G.B. Clarke in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 2:708. 1879; Hiroe, Umb. Asia 1: 173. 1958; Tutin in Tutin et al, Fl. Eur. 2: 360. 1968.

Plants perennial. Leaves 2-3-pinnate; segments linear or lanceolate to oblong or ovate. Rays 3 to numerous. Bracts and bractlets present or lacking. Flowers white or yellow. Fruit strongly dorsally compressed, oblong to ellipsoid; lateral ridges narrowly or broadly winged; dorsal and intermediate ridges slightly or not elevated, acute or obtuse; furrows 1-vittate. Inner seed face plane.

A large genus of about 120 species from S.E. Europe, Asia & Africa.

1 Rays 4-8. Ovary glabrous Peucedanum ferulaefolium

+ Rays 8-12. Ovary pubescent (2)

2 (1) Leaf segments linear to lanceolate. Bracts and bractlets linear Peucedanum beluchistanicum

+ Leaf segments oblong to cuneate. Bracts and bractlets oblong, white margined Peucedanum aucheri

Lower Taxa

Related Synonym(s):

Peucedanum kotschyi Boiss. = Peucedanum aucheri Boiss.

Related Objects

Flora of China

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