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Pimpinella paucidentata MATTHEWS |
Pimpinella L. |
| P. paucidentata Matthews, nom. nov. Syn: Reutera tenuis Boiss. & Hausskn. ex Boiss., Fl. Or. 2:862 (1872); Pimpinella tenuis (Boiss. & Hausskn.) Wolff in Engler, Pflanzenreich 90 (IV. 228):223 (1927) non Sieber ex Schultes (1820). Ic: Mout., Nouv. Fl. Lib. Syr. Atlas 2: t. 274 (1970) as Reutera tenuis. Figure 4, p. 269. Glabrous perennial with slender stems 4-25 cm tall. Basal leaves simple, petiolate, lamina suborbicular, 5-20 mm long, dentate with 4-15 teeth. Cauline leaves trilobed, linear or ± reduced and entire, sheathing base with scarious margin. Umbels 2-3-rayed; bracts and bracteoles absent. Flowers yellow, 5-8 per umbellule; petals glabrous. Fruit oblong-cylindrical, 2x0.5 mm, glabrous; stylopodium mamillate. Fl. 7-8. Cliffs and rock ledges, 1000-2500 m. Type: [Turkey B7 Malatya] in fissuris rupium montis Begdagh (Bey Da.) Cataoniae prope Malatia, Haussknecht (iso. E! K! BM!). E. Anatolia. B6 Maraş: Elbistan, 1400 m, D. 20438! Malatya: Gürün to Malatya, 1400 m, McNeill 463! Lebanon, Syria. Ir.-Tur. element. Very close to P. sintenisii. |