Pimpinella tragium, Vili. Pimpinella tragium subsp. tragium

8. P. tragium Vili. View in CoL , Prosp. Pl. Dauph. 24 (1779)

(incl. P. tomiophylla (Woronow) Stankov ).

Somewhat pubescent to glabrous perennial (5—)10—50(—100) cm. Stock with abundant scale-like remains of petioles. Stem striate, solid. Lower leaves pinnate and sometimes further divided, oblong in outline; segments obovate or lanceolate, often obliquely subcordate at base, serrate, crenate, dentate or sometimes lobed, very rarely with an additional pair o f segments at the base of the primary ones; cauline leaves few, small. Rays 5-15, glabrous or pubescent. Bracts and bracteoles absent or few. Petals pubescent on back. Fruit c. 2 mm, ovoid, shortly tomentose. S. & E. Europe, northwards to c. 54° N. in E. Russia. Al BI Bu Cr G a G r Hs It Ju Rm Rs (C, W, K, E) Si Tu. Very variable in height, dissection of leaves, and hairiness. A number of subspecies have been described and specific rank has been given to some of them. Further investigation is needed, but the following seem to be fairly well-marked subspecies:

1 Leaves 2- to 3-pinnate (e) subsp. titanophila 1 Leaves 1-pinnate

2 Plant 5-10 cm; stock very stout, with the persistent leaf-bases

not or scarcely sheathing it; leaf-lobes up to c. 5 mm, ovate, deeply toothed (d) subsp. depressa 2 Plant (10-)30-100 cm; stock slender to stout, with or without persistent, sheathing leaf-bases; leaf-lobes 5-15 mm, shallowly to deeply toothed

3 Plant 10-30cm; stock with long, slender branches; stem slender; cauline leaves few or 0; leaf-lobes suborbicular,

not deeply toothed (a) subsp. tragium 3 Plant 30-100 cm; stock with short, stout branches; leaf-lobes ovate or deeply lobed

4 Plant slender; leaf-lobes 5-10 mm, incise-serrate

(b) subsp. lithophila 4 Plant stout; leaf-lobes 10-15 mm, not deeply serrate

(c) subsp. polyclada

(a) Subsp. tragium :

S.E. France;? Sicilia.

(b) Subsp. lithophila (Schischkin) Tutin View in CoL , Feddes Repert. 79: 62 (1968)

( P. lithophila Schischkin ; P. tragium var. typica Halâcsy ):

S. Europe, from Spain to Krym.