Description
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
Robust perennial herb, 1-3 m tall, with a fleshy rootstock. Stems finely grooved. Leaves large, 50 cm or more, ovate-triangular in outline, 2 to 3 pinnate with ovate-lanceolate leaflets, often deeply divided; margins irregularly serrate. Umbels terminal and lateral, lateral usually exceeding the terminal. Umbel rays 7-13, bracts small, linear, inconspicuous, sometimes absent. Flowers greenish-white. Fruits up to 10 × 9 mm, almost round, strongly dorsiventrally compressed with lateral wings up to 3 mm wide.
- license
- cc-by-nc
- copyright
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Afroligusticum linderi (C. Norman) P.J.D. Winter Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=143310
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
Worldwide distribution
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
DRC, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
- license
- cc-by-nc
- copyright
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Afroligusticum linderi (C. Norman) P.J.D. Winter Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=143310
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings