Daucus della-cellae (Asch. & Barbey ex E.A.Durand & Barratte) Spalik, Banasiak & Reduron / Homotypic Synonyms: Athamanta della-cellae Asch. & Barneby ex E.A.Durand & Barratte, it is a perennial herb, basally woody, pale-green, branched or simple, up 10 45 cm tall with inconspicuously hairy to glabrous branches. Leaves glabrous, fleshy, broadly oblong-elliptic in outline, 5-10 x 2-4 cm; lower long-pctioled with imbricated marginally ciliolate sheaths, all unipinnatisect into cuneate, petioluled or sessile, 3-partite, incised-dentate leaflets with acute ultimate segments. Umbels 8-12-rayed, on 4-10 cm long, striate, glabrous, terminal peduncles; rays subequal,1-2.5 cm long, minutely hairy. Bracts 5-6, oblong-lanceolate, 4-6 mm long, acute, hairy. Umbellules 15-20 flowered. Pedicels unequal, 4-5 mm long, pubescent. Bracteoles 5-6, oblong-elliptic, shorter to nearly as long as pedicels, pubescent, acute-acuminate. Petals ovate to ± rotundate, c. 1.2 mm long, emarginate incurved at the lip. Styles erect, longer than the stylopodium. Fruit oblong. c, 3 x 1.8 mm, pale-brownish; mericarps with 5, filiform ribs, pubescent.
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