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Aegopodium alpestre Ledeb.: Aegopodium alpestre fo. scabrum Kitag.; Aegopodium alpestre fo. tenerum Hara; Aegopodium alpestre fo. tenuisectum Kitag.; Aegopodium alpestre var. daucifolium Gorovoj; Carum aplestre (Ledeb.) Koso-Pol.; Pimpinella kashmirica R:R. Stewart ex Dunn
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Aegopodium alpestre Ledeb.: Aegopodium alpestre fo. scabrum Kitag.; Aegopodium alpestre fo. tenerum Hara; Aegopodium alpestre fo. tenuisectum Kitag.; Aegopodium alpestre var. daucifolium Gorovoj; Carum aplestre (Ledeb.) Koso-Pol.; Pimpinella kashmirica R.R. Stewart ex Dunn
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Aegopodium alpestre: Plants (20–)30–100 cm. Roots fibrous from an elongate, slender rootstock. Stem hollow. Basal petioles 5–13 cm; blade broad-triangular in outline, 3–9 × 3.5–12 cm, ternate-2-pinnate; ultimate segments long-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 1.5–3.5 × 0.7–2 cm, sessile, base cuneate, irregularly sharp-serrate, apex acute to acuminate. Umbels 3–8 cm across; peduncles 7–15 cm; rays 9–17, 2–4.5 cm; umbellules 10–15 mm across, many-flowered; pedicels 3–10 mm, unequal. Petals white. Styles 2–3 × stylopodium. Fruit oblong or oblong-ovoid, 3–3.5 × 1.8–2.5 mm. Flowering and fruiting June–August (Wu et al. 1994–2013).
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Sher, H., Bussmann, R.W., Paniagua-Zambrana, N.Y., Ur Rahman, I. (2021). Aegopodium alpestre Ledeb. Apiaceae. In: Kunwar, R.M., Sher, H., Bussmann, R.W. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Himalayas. Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57408-6_12
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