Pimpinella cypria

Pimpinella cypria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Apiales
Family: Apiaceae
Genus: Pimpinella
Species: P. cypria
Binomial name
Pimpinella cypria Boiss.

Pimpinella cypria, common name Cyprus Burnet-saxifrage and locally Kıbrıs Pimpinela, is a herbaceous perennial plant belonging to the Carrot family (Apiaceae).

Description

Pimpinella cypria is an erect soft-haired perennial to 70 cm with stout woody rootstock clad in old leaf-sheaths; stems furrowed; basal leaves pinnate with 3-5 oval blunt-toothed and lobed segments to 4 cm long; stem leaves few, similar or with narrow divisions; umbels terminal, in a loose panicle, with 6-14 rays; flowers many in each umbellule, the petals dirty white unequally 2-lobed, about 1 mm. Fruit narrowly oval, 4 mm. Flowers from April to May.[1]

Habitat

Limestone fissures in many north-facing shady spots.

Distribution

In the Kyrenia Range from Kornos to Yaila and near Yedikonuk. Endemic to North Cyprus.

References

  1. An Illustrated Flora of North Cyprus by D. E. Viney, Published by Koeltz Scientific Books, Konigstein, Germany, 1994, ISBN 3-87429-364-5
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