Hymenidium lindleyanum - Rosette Milk Parsley

Rosette Milk Parsley is a dwarf plant, near rosette, 5-30 cm. Stem is not prominent, elongating in fruit, tinged purple-red, papery remnant sheaths at base. Leaf-stalks are 3-6 cm, sheaths oblong; blades oblong-elliptic, 3-8 x 0.8-3 cm, 1-2-ternate-pinnate; pinnae short-stalked; ultimate segments oblong to obovate, 2-10 x 1-2.5 mm, entire, tip blunt. Flowers are borne in umbels 3-5 cm across; bracts 2-4, oblong-ovate, 2-3 cm, shorter than rays, margin purple-red, 1-2-pinnate at tip; rays 4-7, 1-4 cm, unequal; bracteoles 8-12, oblong-ovate or obovate, 5-11 x 4-7 mm, slightly longer than flowers, mid band purple-red, margin broad, white, tip entire or 3-lobed, membranous; flower-stalks numerous, 4-5 mm, winged. Sepal-cup teeth obsolete. Petals broad-obovate, white, about 1.2 mm. Anthers dark purple. Fruit is broad-ovoid, 4-5 mm; ribs all broadly wavy-winged. Rosette Milk Parsley is found in alpine grasslands at about 4000 m, in Western Himalaya and China. Flowering: August.