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Donnelismithia peucedanoides

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Donnelismithia peucedanoides (H.B.K.) Math. & Const Bull. Torrey Club 68: 122. 1941.
? Peucedanum junceum Humb. & Bonpl.; Spreng. in R. & S. Syst. Veg. 6: 572. 1820.
Cnidium peucedanoides H.B.K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 5: 15. 1821.
Eulophus lernatus S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 23: 276. 1888.
Miiseniopsis peucedanoides Coult. & Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 3: 303. 1895.
Miiseniopsis temata Coult. & Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 3: 303. 1895.
Miiseniopsis temata var. filifolia Coult. & Rose, Contr. TJ. S. Nat. Herb. 3: 303. 1895.
Miiseniopsis Schaffneri Coult. & Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 3: 303. 1895.
Velaea peucedanoides Drude in E. & P. Nat. Pfl. 3 8 : 169. 1898.
Velaea temata Drude in E. & P. Nat. Pfl. 3 8 : 169. 1898.
Velaea Schaffneri Drude in E. & P. Nat. Pfl. 3 8 : 169. 1898.
Tauschia peucedanoides F. Macbr. Contr. Gray Herb. 56: 32. 1918.
Perennial from a simple or branched slender taproot, the stem fibrous at the base, 5-10 dm. high, the foliage scaberulous; leaves deltoid in general outline, excluding the petioles 5-12 (or 18) cm. long, 1-4-ternate, the leaflets linear-lanceolate to filiform, 1-10 cm. long, 0.5-4 mm. broad, acute and callous-tipped at the apex, tapering at the base, entire, glabrous or minutely scaberulous on the veins and on the rachis; petioles 5-25 cm. long; uppermost cauline leaves alternate or opposite, ternate with filiform divisions or entire; peduncles alternate or verticillate, 2-7 cm. long, or frequently some umbels sessile; involucre wanting, or of a single bract; involucel wanting, or of 1 -several short, filiform bractlets, shorter than the fruit; rays 2-6, 1-4 cm. long; fertile pedicels 1-4, 2-6 (or 8) mm. long, longer than the sterile pedicels; flowers yellow; stylopodium depressed, not evident; fruit oval or ovoid, 3-4 mm. long, 3 mm. broad, rounded to slightly cordate at the base, obtuse or tapering slightly toward the apex, glabrous, the ribs filiform, evident to indistinct; oil-tubes several in the intervals and on the commissure; seed-face sulcate.
Type locality: "Crescit locis montosis temperatis Provinciae Popayanensis, inter La Sequia et fluvium Putes, alt. 700 hex.," Colombia, Humboldt &* Bonpland (probably an error since the species is not known from South America).
Distribution: Sonora to Tamaulipas. south throughout Mexico to Guatemala and Honduras
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Albert Charles Smith, Mildred Esther Mathias, Lincoln Constance, Harold William Rickett. 1944-1945. UMBELLALES and CORNALES. North American flora. vol 28B. New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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