Petagnia saniculifolia, Guss.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1981, Flora Europaea. Volume 2. Rosaceae to Umbelliferae, Cambridge University Press : 324

1. P. saniculifolia Guss. , Fl. Sic. Prodr. 1: 311 (1827).

Peren­ nial. Stock stout; stems up to 50 cm. Basal leaves long-petiolate, the lamina 4-6 cm, 5-lobed, the lobes dentate; cauline leaves subsessile, deeply 3- to 5-lobed. Inflorescence cymose, the ultimate branches with a central, sessile female or hermaphrodite flower and 2-4 male flowers, whose pedicels are more or less adnate to the ovary of the central flower. Bracts and bracteoles small. Fruit c. 2-5 mm, glabrous. 2« = 42. Beside woodland streams. • N. Sicilia. Si.

Subfam. Apioideae

Leaves always exstipulate. Endocarp soft; vittae usually present in the ripe fruit. Style terminal on the stylopodium. Fruit never scaly.