Source:
SSA
Description:
Perennial herbs with fleshy, tuberous root and slender, leafless scapes. Leaves basal, arising after flowering, the first formed ones finely dissected or sometimes pinnate with broad, dentate lobes, the later ones variously dissected, usually finely bi- or triternate, segments dentate. Flowers in compound umbels; involucre often absent. Calyx with or without minute teeth. Petals obovate or elliptic, with long, inflexed apex and keeled inner face. Disc shortly conical. Stamens slightly shorter than petals; filaments terete; anthers elliptic. Styles short. Fruit small, ovoid, shorter than 4 mm, usually narrowing towards apex, ribbed; mericarps flat on face, convex on back, with 5 prominent ribs; oil ducts 6, 1 in each furrow, 2 on face; carpophore bipartite. Seeds semiterete.
Distribution:
Species 5 or more, widespread in the western, central and southern parts of South Africa and eastwards as far as the Eastern Cape.
Classification:
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