Pimpinella acuminata (Edgew.) C. B. Cl.

A common species found in the Himalayas from 2-2500 m.

Plants perennial, 60–100 cm, glabrous. Root cylindrical, 3–8 × ca. 0.8 cm. Stem little-branched, often tinged purple at base. Lower petioles 6–14 cm; blade ternate-2-pinnate; primary pinnae 4–5 pairs; ultimate segments ovate or lanceolate, 10–20 × 5–10 mm, abaxially pubescent along veins, margins irregularly incised. Upper leaves smaller, 1–2-pinnate or 3-lobed, lobes lanceolate. Umbels 4–10(–14) cm across; bracts 5–6, linear, 3–20 mm; rays 4–10(–13), 2–3 cm in flower, subequal, lengthening to 5–6 cm and spreading in fruit; bracteoles 2–6, linear-filiform, 2–13 mm; umbellules 9–15 mm across, 5–12-flowered; pedicels 0.5–6 mm, very unequal, lengthening to 10–20 mm in fruit. Calyx teeth obsolete. Petals white, broad-ovate, abaxially pilose, apex notched with incurved lobule. Stylopodium conic; styles ca. equal to stylopodium. Fruit ovoid, 2–3 × ca. 2 mm, base cordate, surface glabrous; vittae 2–3 in each furrow, 2 on commissure. Seed face slightly concave. Fl. Jun–Jul, fr. Aug–Sep.

Perennial, glabrous, up to 1 m tall. Leaves petiolate, up to 15 cm long, 2-pinnate; pinnae oval to ovate, incised; leaf bases sheathing. Peduncles 3-15 cm long. Involucre of 5-6 linear white margined bracts. Rays 3-0, slender, 2-6 cm long. Involucel of 5-6 white margined bractlets. Pedicels 1-2.5 cm long, filiform. Calyx teeth obsolete. Fruit ovoid to almost globose, 2-3 mm long, glabrous; ridges thin, not prominent; furrows 2-3-vittate; stylopodium conical; styles short, reflexed. Inner seed face plane to slightly concave.

Himalaya (Kashmir to Sikkim).

Qinghai, W Sichuan, Xizang, NW Yunnan [NW India, Kashmir, Pakistan].

Distribution: Himalayas in India and W. Pakistan.

3300-3700 m

Forests, forest margins, grassy slopes; 2000–2300 m.

Pimpinella acuminata là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hoa tán. Loài này được (Edgew.) C.B. Clarke miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1879.

尖叶茴芹（学名：Pimpinella acuminata）为伞形科茴芹属下的一个种。