Pimpinella pimpinellisimulacrum (Farille & Malla) Farille

This incompletely known taxon is recorded only from a few collections. The slender, glabrous stem, inconspicuous calyx teeth, clawed petals, and ellipsoid fruit resemble Sinocarum, and further work is needed.

Plants perennial, 10–30 cm, slender, glabrous. Taproot slender. Stem erect, simple. Leaves mostly basal, petioles 2–3 cm; blade ternate, orbicular to oval in outline, 2–3 × 3–4 cm; leaflets 3(–5)-lobed. Upper leaves 1–2, similar to basal or absent. Umbels 3–5 cm across; bracts (0–)1–2, linear, apex entire, rarely 2–3-fid; rays 4–6(–10), 2–3 cm, subequal, slender, scaberulous at apex; bracteoles 3–6, linear, 4–6 mm, entire, spreading to reflexed; umbellules 6–8-flowered; pedicels 3–5 mm. Calyx teeth minute, triangular, ca. 0.2 mm. Petals purple, base shortly clawed, apex short, narrow. Stylopodium domed; styles 1–1.5 × stylopodium, spreading or reflexed. Young fruit narrowly ovoid-ellipsoid, ca. 2 × 1 mm, glabrous; vittae 3 in each furrow, 4–6 on commissure (mature fruit not known). Seed face plane. Fl. & fr. Sep–Oct.

S Xizang (near Nyalam) [Nepal].

Among dwarf shrubs, alpine valleys, grassland along streams; 4100–4500 m.