Bupleurum fontanesii, Guss

15. B. fontanesii Guss View in CoL , ex Caruel in Pari., FI. Ital. 8: 417 (1889).

Divaricately branched annual up to 50 cm. Leaves linear, often somewhat falcate, acuminate; lower more or less petiolate; veins 3-5. Terminal umbels with short, stout peduncles, usually overtopped by lateral ones. Rays 5-7, suberect in fruit. Bracts | as long as to about as long as the longer rays, lanceolate, acuminate, whitish and semitranslucent in fruit; veins 3-9, stout, connected by numerous cross-veins which are ascending and then usually abruptly recurved; bracteoles like the bracts but smaller, exceeding the flowers, very shortly connate at base. Fruit 1-5-1-7 mm, oblong-ellipsoid; ridges very slender. Dry open habitats. Mediterranean region from Sardegna eastwards. Al Bu G r It Ju Sa Si Tu [Au Ga].