Eryngium foetidum L.

Alternative names: False coriander, Aesthesia flower, wild herb (Guangdong), false coriander (Guangxi), Burmese coriander , Cilantro (Yunnan)

Description: Biennial or perennial herb, 11-40 cm or more in height, spindle-shaped main root. The stem is green, upright, thick, hairless, with several grooves and 3-5 cymes-like branches on the upper part. Basal leaves are lanceolate or oblanceolate, undivided, leathery, 5-25 cm long, 12-4 cm wide, blunt at the top, tapering at the base with a membranous leaf sheath, and sharp bony serrations at the edges, near the base The serrations are narrow and bristly, the surface is dark green, the back is light green, both sides are hairless, and the veins are pinnate; the petiole is short, with a sheath at the base up to 3 cm; the stem leaves are attached to the base of each fork-shaped branch, and are Raw, sessile, with deeply serrated edges and spike-like teeth, and the top is undivided or has 3-5 deep lobes. The flower head is born at the bifurcation of the stem and on the short branches of the upper branches. It is cylindrical, 0.5-1.2 cm long, 3-5 mm wide, without a peduncle; involucral bracts are 4-7, 1.5-3.5 cm long. , 4-10 mm wide, leaf-shaped, lanceolate, with 1-3 spine-like serrations on the edge; the involucre bracts are broadly linear to lanceolate, 1.5-1.8 mm long, about 0.6 mm wide, with transparent membranous edges; Calyx teeth are ovate-lanceolate to ovate-triangular, 0.5-1 mm long, with sharp tips; petals are almost as long as calyx teeth, oblanceolate to obovate, with infolded tips, white, light yellow or grass green; long filaments About 1.4 mm; style erect or slightly inclined outward, about 1.1 mm long, slightly longer than the calyx teeth. The fruit is oval or spherical, 1.1-1.3 mm long and 1.2-1.3 mm wide. There are knob-like bulges on the surface and the fruit ribs are not obvious. The flowering and fruiting period is from April to December.

Classification: Apiaceae -- Apiaceae -- Eryngium