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Botanical name: Prangos pabularia Family: Apiaceae (Carrot family)
Synonyms: Koelzella pabularia,
Synonyms: Koelzella pabularia,
Prangos is a plant looking similar to Bupleurum in
yellow flowers but easily differentiated by compound highly dissected
leaves with threadlike segments. It is a perennial herb up to 1.2 m
tall. Leaves are multipinnate with threadlike to linear segments.
Flowers are borne in compound umbels with rays 9-15, up to 12 cm long.
Involucre bracts are 5-6, linear. Flowers are yellow with prominent
calyx teeth. Fruit is 1-1.5 cm long with broad wavy ridges and
transverse folds. Prangos is found in Afghanistan, USSR, Baluchistan in
W. Pakistan and the Himalayas, at altittudes of 2100-3300 m. It is
common in Ladakh and Kashmir.
Identification credit: Gurcharan Singh
| Photographed above Cheshmashahi, Kashmir. |