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Afroligusticum linderi (C. Norman) Winter

Description

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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.
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Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
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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
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Mark Hyde
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Bart Wursten
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Petra Ballings
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Worldwide distribution

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DRC, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
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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
original
visit source
partner site
Flora of Zimbabwe