Rhabdosciadium urusakii

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Perennial herb, 30–90 cm tall, with thick cylindrical taproot. Stem generally dichotomously branched in lower and middle parts, rarely throughout, junciform, striate, slender, glabrous, at base with a fibrous 3–5 cm long collar, Leaves of sterile shoot well-developed, long-petiolate, 5–20 cm long, glabrous, slightly sulcate, with base of petiole enlarged; lamina ovate, 8–35 x 4–15 cm, 1-pinnate, with ultimate segments 15–110 x 1–3 mm, linear, entire, or sometimes with terminal segment wider, up to 5 mm long and toothed. Stem leaves reduced to a broadened petiole and lamina of few divaricate filiform segments, glabrous. Peduncle 8–20 cm, with 1–2 prophylls. Rays 2–3, equal, 20–35 mm long. Bracts 2–4, persistent, ovate-lanceolate, 0.5–1.0 x 1.5–2.0 mm, glabrous. Bracteoles 4–5, linearlanceolate, 0.2–0.5 mm x 1.0–1.5 mm, long-acuminate, persistent. Pedicels 6–9, subequal, pedicel of fertile flower shorter or absent. Flowers hermaphrodite, only the central flower fertile, the other flowers sterile, pedicellate and deciduous in fruit. Sepals reduced. Petals white with brownish veins, oblong-ovate, incurved, pilose on dorsal side. Anthers purple to brownish, becoming yellow. Stylopodium short-conical and almost embedded in corky pericarp; both mericarps mostly well-developed. Mature fruit linear to oblanceolate, curved especially in the lower part, 13–18 x 2–3 mm, glabrous; styles 1.5–2.5 mm. Dorsal and lateral ridges filiform. Flowering occurs in July–August, and fruiting in August–September.

Endemic.