Falcaria falcarioides
Falcaria falcarioides
Has orakotu
Glaucous biennial. Stem slender, terete, striate, 20-100 cm. Basal and lower cauline leaves long-peduncled, almost always simple or sometimes a few of them ternate only, cartilaginous and serrate, glaucous or sometimes petiole setulose-puberulent; simple leaves narrowly ovate to oblong-linear, 1,5-10 x 0,5-2,5 cm, cordate at base, usually obtuse at apex; segments of ternate leaves sessile, attenuate at base and usually acute at apex, upper cauline leaves small, usually ternate. Umbels long-peduncled, rays 5-8, ascending-erect, 1,5-3 cm; bracts and bracteoles absent; fruiting pedicels slender. Mericarps ovate, 3-3,5 x 2 mm, slightly compressed dorsally, constricted at commissure; ridges obsolete; dorsal vittae 12-16, commissural 4-8, all unequal and forming a continuous row round the seed. Fl. 6-8. Salt marshes, 380-1250 m.
Soviet Armenia, N.W. & W. Iran.
