Botanical name: Pimpinella wallichiana    Family: Apiaceae (Carrot family)
Synonyms: Pimpinella katrajensis, Helosciadium wallichianum

Heartleaf Pimpinel is an erect herb, 40-75 cm tall, stems simple below, branched above; stem and branches round, faintly striped, often reddish-purple tinged, hairless, young parts thinly velvet-hairy. Basal leaves are ovate, heart-shaped. Lower stem leaves are pinnately 3-foliolate; lateral leaflets simple or secondarily pinnately trifoliate. Leaf-stalks are 3-6 cm long, sheathing, sparsely fringed with hairs on margins. Leaflets are 2.6 x 0.8-3.2 cm, ovate to ovate-lanceshaped, sparsely hairy, sharply sawtoothed; leaflet-stalks 0.4-2.0 cm long, hairless or so; secondary leaflets of lateral leaflets stalkless; upper leaves often cut into numerous, linear segments or reduced to sheaths. Flowers are dull white, borne in branch-end compound umbels. Primary rays are 10-15, 1.0-3.5 cm long, hairless or nearly so, slender, flower-cluster-stalks 2.5-8.0 cm long. Fruits are 0.2 cm long, ovoid, pellucid-granulate. Heartleaf Pimpinel is endemic to Peninsular India. Flowering: November-February.

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