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Prangos pabularia Lindl.: Cachrys pabularia Herrnst. & Heyn; Koelzella pabularia (Lindl.) Hiroë; Prangos culindrocarpa Korovin; Prangos lamellata Korovin
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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).
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).
References
Shishkin BK. Flora of the USSR, Volume 16: Umbelliflorae. Leningrad: Akademia Nauk; 1950 (English 1973). 478p, 37 b/w plates, 2 maps.
Sokolov PD, editor. Plant resources of the USSR: flowering plants, their chemical composition, use; Volume 4. Families of Rutaceae-Elaeagnaceae. Leningrad: Akademia Nauk; 1988. 357 p. (in Russian).
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Bussmann, R.W., Batsatsashvili, K., Kikvidze, Z. (2020). Prangos pabularia Lindl. Apiaceae. In: Batsatsashvili, K., Kikvidze, Z., Bussmann, R. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Central Asia and Altai. Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28947-8_112
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