Bunium pinnatifolium

Tel aksar

Plant dark-green, glabrous; rootstock a globose tuber, 1.5-2.5 cm diam. Stems erect, solid, terete, paniculately branched, more than 70 cm, 1.5-2 cm diam. at base; terminal umbels absent. Basal leaves long petiolate; lamina triangular, 7-13 x 5-10 cm, bipinnatisect, primary segment shortly petiolulate, terminal lobes 1-2 cm long, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, deeply lobate. Cauline leaves bipinnatisect; lamina triangular, up to 2 x 1.2 cm, 3-paired, primary segments shortly petiolulate, terminal rhomboid or ovate, to 5 mm long, lobes ovate or triangular, mucronulate, deeply divided. Upper cauline leaves similar to lower, but smaller, lobes linear-lanceolate, to 5 mm long.  Rays 3-5, subequal, to 1.5 cm. Bracts 4-5. linear. Bracteoles similar to bracts. Pedicels 10-12, up to 2 mm. Petals white, emarginate. Ovary lanceolate, to 2 mm long; vallecular vittae 1; commissural 2. Mericarps 3-3.5 x 0.9-1.0 mm, oblong or oblong-lanceolate; stylopodium flat; styles 1.3-1.5 mm, deflexed. Fl. 5. Rocky slopes, in phrygana, 600-650 m.

Endemic. E. Medit. element.