Heracleum antasiaticum
Heracleum antasiaticum
Kamşam
Stout perennial, 0,5-1 m, aromatic or not. Stem at least 1,5 cm diam. below, deeply sulcate, ± hirsute. Lower leaves pinnately or ternately lobed; lamina rounded, 25-75 cm, ± asperous above, grey-tomentose below, lobes ovate to rounded, unequally denticulate. Upper cauline leaves with very broad, inflated, retuse, dentate or entire sheaths. Rays 25-70, ± unequal, 4-16 cm, scabrid-pubescent. Flowers white, outer ones shortly radiant. Ovary hirtellous. Fruits obovate to broadly obovate, 9-14 x 6-10 mm, emarginate, setulose, shortly hirsute or glabrescent; dorsal vittae clavate, up to 1,5mm broad, 2/3 as long as mericarp; commissural vittae narrower, up to ½ -1 as long as mericarp. Fl. 6-7 Edge of forest, gullies in scrub, by streams, 1400-2200 m.
Georgia, Soviet Armenia. Euxine element.
