Daucus mirabilis (Maire & Pamp.) Reduron, Banasiak & Spalik / Homotypic Synonyms: Pachyctenium mirabile Maire & Pamp., it is a perennial herb, up to 10-15 (-20) cm long) branches, prostrate, sometimes ascending, hispid-hirtetlous; rootstock up to 10 mm thick, elongated, branched above. Leaves rosulate, (3-) 6-7 (-9) cm long, oblong-lanceolate in outline, pinnatisect; segments 2-3-jugatc, pinnati-partite to linear-lanceolate, mucronate, petiole ± equal to lamina. sheathing at base. Flowering branches about twice as long as leaves; hairs short retrorse; cauline leaves (0-) 1-2. Umbels generally terminal, c. 5 cm across at flowering (up to 10 cm in fruit), rarely axillary in the upper leaves but smaller. Rays unequal, outer longer, much exceeding the involucral bracts, thickened, hirtellous and purplish in colour in fruit; involucral bracts several, unequal, usually entire, linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, hirtellous; umbellules 6-10 mm wide. Flowers 2.5 mm across, pinkish or purplish, almost actinomorphic; calyx 5-toothed with conspicuous triangular teeth, glabrous; petals obcordate, inflexed, apiculate. Styles 2. erect, filiform elongating; stylopodium disc flate, rounded. Fruit 2.5 (-3) x 1.6 mm (excluding styles), ovate below with dentate wing and oblong, naked above like a beak, terminating into 5 dentate calyx teeth and 2, filiform elongated styles, more than half the length of fruit; mericarp with secondary ridges dentate-winged in primary ridges short, hairy.
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