Trailing or ascending glabrous perennial; stems rooting at the lower nodes, up to c. 80 cm long, finely striate, hollow and weak. Leaves 4–40 cm long, pinnate with 2–6 pairs of sessile leaflets; leaflets c. 9–55 x 5–20 mm, dentate or sometimes ± lobed; petiole 1.5–12 cm long; sheaths with membranous margin, the upper leaves reduced to sheaths with a sessile blade of few leaflets. Umbels sessile or almost so; rays 5–10, c. 8–30 mm long; involucre often absent, occasionally with up to 3 bracts; flowers 12–20 in each partial umbel, on up to 5 mm long pedicels; involucel of 5–7 bracteoles 3–6 mm long, acute, with pale margins. Petals c. 0.8 mm long, white. Fruits ovoid to almost round, laterally compressed, c. 2 mm long, with pale primary ribs; styles c. twice as long as the flat stylopodia.
Range
N2 North Africa, and in Europe, south-western and central Asia.
Altitude range
c. 1500 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Collenette 7; Glover & Gilliland 915.
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia
Eritrea
Tanzania
Notes
The two known collections from Somalia are both from the “Medishe” springs at c. 10°47’N, 9°47’E.
