华囊瓣芹 hua nang ban qin

Carum sinense Franchet, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, sér. 8, 6: 119. 1894; Cryptotaeniopsis sinensis (Franchet) H. Wolff.

Plants 30–60 cm. Stems glabrescent, slender. Basal leaves petiolate, petiole 4–6 cm; blade triangular-ovate in outline, 5–7 × 3.5–5.5 cm, 2–3-ternate; ultimate segments ovate, 1–2 × 1–1.5 cm, sparsely strigose on the veins, margins crenate. Umbels 3–5 cm across in flower, to 5–7 cm in fruit; bracts 2–3, linear-lanceolate, 1–1.5 mm; rays 7–15, 1–4 cm; bracteoles 2–3, ca. 0.5 mm; umbellules 2–3-flowered; pedicels to 4 mm. Calyx teeth lanceolate, ca. 0.4 mm. Petals white. Stylopodium low conic; styles short, ca. 0.4 mm. Fruit ovate, ca. 3 × 2 mm; ribs finely scabrid; vittae absent in each furrow and on commissure. Fl. and fr. May–Aug.

Forests; 1400–3100 m. Yunnan.