Perennial herbs with woody base; stems procumbent, glabrous, distinctly ribbed
Leaves
slender, much dissected, 3-pinnate to multifid, ultimate lobes nearly terete, oblong to filiform
Flowers
in terminal, bracteate, multi-rayed umbels on long peduncles
Calyx
small, with narrowly triangular teeth
Petals
obovate, subemarginate, with inflexed tips, yellow
Disc
shortly conical
Styles
slender, much longer than petals
Fruit
roundish ovate, subterete, crowned with stylopodium and spreading styles; mericarps with 5 wing-like ridges, wings thick, corky, undulate; oil ducts 6, 4 in the furrows and 2 on face
Nomenclature:
Stenosemis
E.Mey. ex Sond.
Sonder: 551 (1862)
Burtt: 324 (1979)
Burtt: 207 (1989)
Burtt: 250 (1991)
Pimenov & Leonov: 108 (1993)
Distribution & Notes:
Southern Africa
: Species 2, South Africa, S KwaZulu-Natal to Eastern Cape
References:
BURTT, B.L. 1979.
Umbelliferae
. In O.M. Hilliard & B.L. Burtt, Notes on some plants of southern Africa chiefly from Natal: VIII.
Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
37
BURTT, B.L. 1989. op. cit. XV.
Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
45
BURTT, B.L. 1991.
Umbelliferae
of southern Africa: an introduction and annotated checklist.
Edinburgh Journal of Botany
48
PIMENOV, M.G. & LEONOV, M.V. 1993.
The genera of the
Umbelliferae
. A nomenclator
. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
SONDER, W. 1862.
Umbelliferae
.
Flora capensis
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