Seseli asperulum (Trautv.) Schischk.

This plant is very similar to the following species, Seseli coronatum, and is perhaps conspecific with it.

Plants 25–50 cm, polycarpic. Caudex branched. Stems several, dichotomously branched from middle, solid, terete, minutely puberulent. Leaf blade oblong, 8–12 × 1.5–2 cm, 2–3-pinnatisect, greenish pubescent; pinnae short-petiolulate; ultimate segments narrowly lanceolate to linear, 3–10 × 0.5–1.5 mm, acute. Upper leaf blades entire, linear, short. Synflorescence thyrsoid; umbels 1.5–2 cm across; bracts absent; rays 4–6(–10), 1–1.4 cm, slightly unequal, scabrous; bracteoles 5–8, linear-lanceolate, entire, 1.1–1.6 mm, scabrous, margin membranous; umbellules ca. 15-flowered; pedicels 1.5–2.5 mm. Calyx teeth obsolete. Petals white or pale yellow, abaxially pubescent. Stylopodium conic; styles reflexed. Fruit ovoid or obovoid, slightly dorsally compressed, 5–6 × 2.5–3 mm, sparsely pilose when young, almost glabrous at maturity; dorsal ribs filiform, margin ribs winged; vittae 3–5 in each furrow, 10–12 on the commissure. Fl. and fr. Jun–Jul.

Qinghai, Xinjiang [Kazakhstan].

Dry stony schistose slopes; 700–900 m.