Synonyms

Prangos pabularia Lindl.: Cachrys pabularia Herrnst. & Heyn; Koelzella pabularia (Lindl.) Hiroë; Prangos culindrocarpa Korovin; Prangos lamellata Korovin

Local Names

Russian: Пpaнгoc кopмoвoй (Prangos kormovoy); Uzbek: Tulky kuyruq; Kyrgyz: Toют aюучaчы (Toyut ayuu chachy) (Sokolov 1988)

Botany and Ecology

Perennial; plant 60–175 cm high, completely glabrous or subglabrous; root thickened, penetrating deep into the ground, stems angular, branching strongly from middle, thickly covered with brown hairy leaf remnants; radical leaves in dense cluster directed upward, their petioles short at first (ca. 5 cm), later longer (ca. 20 cm); blades of leaves oblong, 30–70 cm long, 6–12 cm wide, pinnatipartite, with bipinnatipartite lobes; terminal lobes 8–15(20) mm long, linear-filiform, directed forward, or slightly spreading. Inflorescence of 10–20 rays; leaflets of involucre and involucels linear-lanceolate; fruit oblong-ovoid or oblong-cylindrical, 15–18(20) mm long, 8–9 mm wide; wings membranous from base, wider than diameter of wingless fruit, corrugated-plicate, with 10–12 folds; valleculae tuberculate. June–July. Middle Asia, tall herbaceous mountain meadows, often forming uninterrupted thickets, also shrubby formations and stony slopes, 900–3200 m (Shishkin 1950) (Fig. 1).

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Prangos pabularia (Apiaceae), Tbilisi, Georgia. (Photo R.W. Bussmann & N.Y. Paniagua-Zambrana)

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Phytochemistry

Coumarins (osthol, oxypeucedanin, imperatorin, prangenin, prangenidin), alkaloids (prangosine), terpenoids, essential oils (humulene, bicyclogermacrene, spathulenol, germacrene, pinene) (Sokolov 1988).

Local Medicinal Uses

The decoction is used to treat scabies, and the ash is used to treat wounds (Sokolov 1988).

Local Handicraft and Other Uses

In veterinary medicine, the decoction is used to disinfect the mouth, kill ticks, and fleas (Sokolov 1988).