Scandix stellata Banks & Sol., it is a slender, annual herb, up to 30 cm, hairy or glabrous, sparingly and dichotomously branched above. Leaves (1-) 2-3-pinnatisect with narrowly linear to filiform, acute lobes. Umbel rays 1-3. Bract usually absent. Bracteoles pinnate, usually 3-5 lobed above, without distinct membranous margin. Flowers very small, white; outer petals scarcely radiate, notched. Styles minute, about as long as stylopodium. Fruit shorter, beak 1.5-3 times as long as the seed-bearing portion, strongly compressed dorsally, scabrous.
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