Daucus durieua Lange, it is an erect or ascending annual herb, up to20 (-30) cm tall. Stem flexuous, branched from the base, shortly hispidulous. Leaves petiolate oblong, 2-3-pinnate, usually 1-2 x 1-1.5 cm in outline; lobes lanceolate-linear, 1-2 (-3) x 0.5-1 mm, shortly hispid. Umbels sub sessile, leaf-opposed. Rays3-5, markedly unequal, inconspicuous to conspicuous, thickened. Bracts foliaceous, resembling the cauline leaves, several, unequal exceeding the umbellule, bracteoles 3-5, linear-lanceolate, entire or pinnatifid smaller. Flowers few (up to 5) in each umbellule; pedicels short unequal, thickened, up to 5 mm long. Petals very small, yellowish white. Fruits 4-6 x 1.5-2 mm, oblong-elliptical; primary ridges of mericarps with several rows of whitish short bristles; secondary ridges with conspicuous, often golden-yellow hispidulous-papillose, glochidiate spines, c. 2 mm long, confluent with each other at the bases, forming a narrow wing.
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