Lanceleaf Thorowax is a perennial herb, 30-150
cm tall. Stem is branched above. Lower stem leaves are long-stalked, up
to 15 cm long, blade lanceshaped to broadly oval, 7-9 veined, tips
acute. Upper leaves are gradually shorter, short-stalked to nearly
stalkless, 5-7 veined. Flowers are carried in umbels on stalks 2-5 cm
long. Involucral bracts are lacking or sometimes 1, minute. Rays are
5-8, slender. Involucel of 5 linear, 3-veined bractlets, shorter than
the flowering umbellet. Flower-stalks are longer than the flowers.
Stylopodium disc-shaped; styles short, divaricate. Fruit is oblong to
ovoid, 3-4 mm long. Lanceleaf Thorowax is found in the Himalayas, at
altitudes of 2000-3000 m.
Identification credit: Krishan Lal
Photographed in Sirmaur Distt., Himachal Pradesh.
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