Heptaptera cilicica

Mersin çakşırı

Plants slender with triquetrous glabrous stems. Basal leaves 1-2-pinnatisect; proximal leaf segments sessile or petiolulate, all others sessile; leaflobes ovate to elliptic; leaves papillate, mainly along rachis. Rays 13-19, 6-9 cm long. Pedicels 1-1 ½  x as long as fruit. Mericarps broad-ellipsoid, 10-12 x7-8 mm; seed ¾ as long as mericarp; dorsal wings extending to base of mericarp, slightly narrower than lateral wings; lateral wings c. 2 mm wide. Fl. 5. Hills below 500 m.

Endemic. E. Medit. element.