斑膜芹属 ban mo qin shu

Pu Fading (溥发鼎 Pu Fa-ting); Mark F. Watson

Hymenolyma Korovin.

Herbs, perennial. Root turnip-shaped or fusiform, woody. Stem single, rarely 2, erect, profusely branched, base clothed with fibrous remnant sheaths. Basal leaves petiolate; blade oblong-ovate, 1–3-pinnate. Upper leaves reduced, 1-pinnate or 3-lobed, sessile on expanded sheaths. Umbels compound, terminal and lateral; bracts 5, margins broad membranous; rays unequal; bracteoles 5, similar to bracts. Calyx teeth obsolete. Petals white, obovate, base cuneate, apex notched with small incurved lobule. Stylopodium conic; styles ca. equal to stylopodium, divergent or reflexed. Fruit oblong-ovoid, somewhat dorsally compressed, commissure broad; ribs filiform or scabridulous; vittae solitary or 3–4 in each furrow, 2 or 6–10 on commissure. Seed face plane or slightly convex. Carpophore 2-cleft to base.

Six to ten species: C and SW Asia; two species in China.

Lower Taxa

• Hyalolaena bupleuroides (Schrenk ex Fischer & C. A. Meyer) Pimenov & Kljuykov
• Hyalolaena trichophylla (Schrenk) Pimenov & Kljuykov