Ferula coskunii
Ferula coskunii
Kasnaotu
Perennial herbs. ROOTSTOCK thick, cylindric, 1–4 cm diam., dense fibrous collar present < 10 cm long. STEM 80–225 cm, terete, sulcate, ±glaucous, glabrous, 0.5–1.5 cm diam. at the base. BASAL LEAVES triangular-ovate in outline, 50–90 x 20–40 cm; petioles long, 30–50 cm, terete, sulcate and glabrous; lamina 6–7-pinnate, ultimate segments linear-lanceolate, 0.5–2 x 0.2–0.4 mm, acute-acuminate, sparsely crisped-pubescent. All sheaths linear-lanceolate, weakly inflated, membraneous, sulcate, glaucous, glabrous; lower and middle sheaths amplexicaul, 5–15 x 1–3 cm, lamina reduced, 3–5-pinnate; upper sheaths subamplexicaul, 2–10 x 1–2 cm, lamina obsolete or a few segments. INFLORESCENCE lax and long branched paniculate; lateral branches ascending, to 30 cm; bracts like sheath present at base of lateral branches ; central umbels short-peduncled , rays 8–14, 1–2 cm, usually subequal, lateral umbels usually 2, thin and long-peduncled, usually sterile; umbellules 20–35-flowers, fruiting pedicels 3–5 mm, subequal. BRACTEOLES usually absent, rarely 2–4, linear-lanceolate, 0.5–1 mm, caducous. SEPALS obsolete. PETALS yellow, glabrous, 1.5–2 mm, reflexed. MERICARPS elliptic-oblong, 5–9 x 3–5 mm, dark green-brown when ripe; dorsal ridges weakly filiform, lateral wings 0.3–0.5 mm wide; stylopodium short, terete; style usually persistent; stigma capitate; dorsal vittae per vallecula 1, commissural vittae 2 and usually near lateral wings.
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