Rhabdosciadium oligocarpum

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Perennial herb, junciform, 40–90 cm, with thick taproot, cylindrical, ± vertical, 7–15 mm diameter. Stem entirely dichotomous branched, angled, triquatreous to slender, glabrous, with a well developed fibrous collar 3–7 cm, 3–10 mm diameter at base. Leaves of sterile shoots well developed, long-petiolate, 6–12 cm, glabrous, slightly sulcate, base of petiole winged, lamina broadly ovate to triangular, 18–32 × 12–20 cm, trifid to 3-pinnate, ultimate segments 30–100 mm × 1–10 mm, linear to lanceolate, entire or 1–2 distinctly linear-lanceolate toothed; basal leaves reduced to broadened petiole and few divaricates filiform segments, 5–9 × 0.8–1.5 cm , clearly sulcate. Lower cauline leaves much reduced few filiform segments or awl shaped. Middle and upper cauline leaves awl shaped, glabrous. Peduncle 2–12 cm. Rays 3–4, subequal, 15–35 mm at most. Bracts 3–4, persistent, linear-subulate, 3–4 m m, glabrous. Bracteoles 3–6, linear-lanceolate, acuminate c. 2 mm, persistent. Pedicel 5–8, subequal. Flowers hermaphroditic, only centre flower fertile and mostly sessile or 3–4 mm long, the other flowers sterile, pedicellate and when ripe caducous. Sepal obsolate. Petals white, oblong, c. 1 × 0.6 mm, incurved, glabrous. Anthers initially purple to brownish, later yellow. Stilopodium distinctly conical, not embedded in corky pericarp, mericarps always well developed. Mature fruit linear-oblong to oblanceolate, 18–23 × 1.5–2 mm, glabrous; styles divergent, 3–4 mm.