Seseli eriocarpum (Schrenk) B. Fedtschenko.

Plants (20–)40–50 cm. Caudex simple, 3–7 mm thick. Stem solitary, dichotomously branched from base or in upper part, solid, finely grooved, glabrous. Leaf blade gray-green, oblong, 6–14 × 2–5 cm, 2-pinnate; pinnae shortly petiolulate; ultimate segments linear, 5–20 × 1–3 mm, margins narrowly revolute. Cauline leaves reduced, 3-lobed or undivided. Synflorescence paniculate; umbels 1–2(–3.5) cm across; bracts (2–)4–7, lanceolate or ovate, short, unequal, abaxially pubescent, margins scarious, bases fused together; rays (2–)4–8, 5–10 mm, densely pubescent; bracteoles 5–8, lanceolate, 0.3–1.5 mm, connate at base; umbellules 10–20-flowered, subcapitate, flowers sessile. Calyx teeth lanceolate. Petals white or pale yellow, abaxially pubescent. Styles usually purplish, more than 3 × stylopodium, divergent. Fruit oblong or oblong-ovate, dorsally compressed 5–6 (–10) × 3.5–4.5(–6) mm, densely lanate with gray hairs or sparsely pilose; lateral ribs winged, broader than the keeled dorsal ribs, slightly corky; vittae 1 in each furrow, 2 on commissure. Fl. and fr. Jul–Sep.

Two of us (Pimenov & Kljuykov, FOC 14: 130. 2005) treat this as Seseli eriocarpum.

Mountain summits, dry stony and gravelly slopes, rock crevices; ca. 1600 m. Xinjiang [Kazakhstan, Mongolia].