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Information Rootstock an elongated fleshy tuber 1 1/4 in. (or more?) thick, producing 1 or more annual erect stems 3–4 in. high and 1/8– 1/4 in. thick at the base, with an umbel of 3–4 rays at the apex, glabrous. Leaves sessile, alternate, whorled at the base of the umbel, 1 3/4–3 in. long, 1/3– 2/3 in. broad, narrowly lanceolate to cuneate-oblanceolate, acute, entire, glabrous on both sides. Rays of the umbel 1–2 in. long, simple or once forked, glabrous. Bracts 3/4–1 1/4 in. long, 2/3–1 2/3 in. broad, sessile, deltoid-ovate, truncate or rounded at the base, tapering to an acute apex, glabrous. Involucres solitary, sessile or on peduncles 1–1 3/4 lin. long, 1/4– 1/3 in. in diam. and 1/6 in. deep, broadly cup-shaped, glabrous, with 5 glands and 5 transversely subrectangular emarginate or subentire lobes 3/4–1 lin. long and 1–1 3/4 lin. broad; glands distant, 3/4–1 1/4 lin. in their greater diam., transversely elliptic, with the base excavated or very obliquely and shallowly funnel-shaped, entire. Ovary glabrous, wholly or partly included; styles united below, with the free part about 1 lin. long, slender, slightly thickened at the apex. Fruit and seeds not seen.

Information Glabrous perennial herb with annual stems from a fleshy rootstock; rootstock, 20–30 × 2–4 cm, cylindrical; stems subfleshy to 35 cm high, rarely persistent and woody.Leaves sessile; stipules filamentous, c. 1 mm long, deciduous; lamina to c. 12 × 4 cm, lanceolate to obovate, rounded to obtuse at the apex and minutely apiculate, cuneate at the base, entire.Cymes axillary and in terminal 3-branched umbels with primary rays to 10 cm long, each forking 2–4 times.Bracts to 4.5 × 4 cm, deltoid, apex obtuse-apiculate, base subcordate, those at the base of the umbel similar to the leaves.Cyathia on peduncles to 1.5 mm long, 5.5 × 10 mm, with cup-shaped involucres; glands 5, spreading, 1.5 × 2–3.5 mm, transversely elliptic with outer margin obscurely crenulate; lobes 1.5 × 3 mm, rounded, margin entire and minutely ciliate.Male flowers many: bracteoles laciniate with feathery apices; stamens 8 mm long, with anther cells minutely hispid.Female flower: styles 2 mm long, joined at the base for 0.5 mm, then widely spreading, with shortly bifid apices.Capsule 1 × 1.2 cm, deeply 3-lobed; pedicel 2.5 mm long.Seeds c. 4.5 mm in diameter, globose; surface reticulately wrinkled, brownish-grey.