Stenosemis

E.Mey. ex Sond.
Source: 
SSA
Description: 
Perennial herbs with woody base; stems procumbent, glabrous, distinctly ribbed. Leaves slender, much dissected, 3-pinnate to multifid, ultimate lobes nearly terete, oblong to filiform. Flowers in terminal, bracteate, multi-rayed umbels on long peduncles. Calyx small, with narrowly triangular teeth. Petals obovate, subemarginate, with inflexed tips, yellow. Disc shortly conical. Styles slender, much longer than petals. Fruit roundish ovate, subterete, crowned with stylopodium and spreading styles; mericarps with 5 wing-like ridges, wings thick, corky, undulate; oil ducts 6, 4 in the furrows and 2 on face.
Distribution: 
Species 2, South Africa; S KwaZulu-Natal to Eastern Cape.
Classification: 
APIACEAE

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