Bunium alpinum, Waldst. & Kit.

2. B. alpinum Waldst. & Kit. View in CoL , Pl. Rar. Hung. 2: 199 (1804).

Procumbent or erect perennial up to 50(-75) cm. Basal leaves with linear to elliptical or lanceolate lobes. Rays 3—10(—16), slender or stout; pedicels slender or stout, not toothed on inner edge. Bracts 1-5(-6), linear or lanceolate; bracteoles like the bracts. Sepals absent or minute. Fruit 2-4(-5-5)m m; primary ridges slender; vittae 2-3. Mountains o f S. Europe. Al Co Ga Hs It Ju Sa Si. A very variable species, the variation being correlated with altitude and habitat as well as distribution. The following division into subspecies is somewhat tentative. 1 Rays 5-10(-16) 2 Leaf-lobes not more than 5(-7) mm (c) subsp. montanum 2 Leaf-lobes 5-10(-20) mm (d) subsp. macuca 1 Rays 3—5(—6) 3 Fruit 3-5-5-5 mm; leaf-lobes very obtuse (e) subsp. petraeum 3 Fruit 2-5-3-5 mm; leaf-lobes acute or subobtuse 4 Fruit oblong or oblong-ellipsoid, widest at the middle (a) subsp. alpinum 4 Fruit oblong-obovoid, widest above the middle (b) subsp. corydalinum