Pastinaca dasycarpa Regel & Schmalhausen, Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada 5: 598. 1878; Malabaila dasycarpa (Regel & Schmalhausen) Schischkin; Platytaenia dasycarpa (Regel & Schmalhausen) Korovin; P. komarovii (Mandenova) Schischkin; Semenovia komarovii Mandenova; Tordyliopsis komarovii (Mandenova) Mandenova; Zosima komarovii (Mandenova) M. Hiroe.

Plants small, 3–50 cm tall. Taproot ca. 1.5 cm across, crown semi-woody. Stem single, little-branched, pubescent. Basal leaves pinnate; pinnae 3–4 pairs, ovate or broad-ovate, 3–6 × 2.5–5 cm, 2–3-lobed, both surfaces sparsely pubescent, margins sharply serrate. Cauline leaves similar to the basal, reduced upward. Umbels 4–6 cm across; bracts 4–6, linear-lanceolate, densely pubescent, with narrow membranous margins; rays 4–14, unequal, up to 7 cm, densely pubescent; bracteoles similar to the bracts, connate at the base, nearly as long as umbellule; flowers 20–30 per umbellule. Calyx teeth minute. Petals white. Fruit ovoid-oblong, ca. 10 × 6 mm, puberulent; dorsal and intermediate ribs filiform, raised, lateral ribs narrowly winged; vittae reaching to the base of mericarp. Seed face plane. Fl. and fr. Jul–Aug.

Grassy slopes, meadows; 2000–2300(–3000) m. Xinjiang [Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan].