Bunium L.

21. Bunium L. View in CoL 1

( Bulbocastanum Miller )

Stock a more or less globose tuber. Subterranean part of stem flexuous. Leaves 2- to 3-pinnate with narrow lobes. Sepals small or absent. Petals white, obcordate; apex inflexed. Fruit oblongobovoid or oblong, laterally compressed. Ridges thick and prominent or slender; vittae 1-3. Stylopodium abruptly contracted into the style. Cotyledon solitary through abortion.

1 Fruiting pedicels not more than 0-3 mm in diameter, much thinner than the fruit

2 Bracts 5-10; pedicels minutely toothed on the inner edge

1. bulbocastanum 2 Bracts 1—5(—6); pedicels not toothed 2. alpinum 1 Fruiting pedicels at least 0-5 mm in diameter, almost as thick as the fruit

3 Rays 3-6; primary ridges of fruit slender 2. alpinum 3 Rays 6-15; primary ridges of fruit thick

4 Bracts 0-2; sepals 0 or minute; styles about as long as stylopodium 3. ferulaceum 4 Bracts 6-8; sepals up to 0-4 mm; styles longer than the stylopodium 4. pachypodum