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Saudi Arabia flora checklist
Fumaria parviflora Lam.
Nomencalture
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Family: PapaveraceaeGenus: Fumaria
SUMMARY
Fumaria parviflora Lam ♦
Small, delicate, much branched, leafy, diffuse herb, 5-25 (-40) cm long, glaucous, glabrous. Leaves (2-) 3-10 cm long, (1-) 2-5 cm broad, long-stalked to subsessile, much dissected, 2-3 -pinnatisect or decompound, with (2-) 3-5 pairs of lateral pinnae and a terminal one; pinnae long-petiolaled to subsessile; 1-3 cm long, 0.5-2 (-2.5) cm broad, , finely lobuled into linear ultimate segments (lobules) up to 5 (-8) mm long, 1 mm broad, flat to slightly channelled. Racemes shortly peduncled to subsessile, leaf-opposed, 6-12 (-15)-flowered, 10-20 mm long; bracts as long as or slightly longer than pedicels; linear, submembranous, whitish. Pedicel erect, 1.5-2 (-2.5) mm long, with midian ridge and somewhat expanded margins, slightly broader below the fruit or at its apex. Flowers 5-6 mm long, usually white or pale pinkish. Sepals minute, less than 1 mm long, 0.5 mm broad, sometimes obsolete or inconspicuous, laciniate-dentate, whitish, membranous. Upper petal with very short suborbicular, slightly oblong and obscurely downcurved spur, c. 1.5 mm long (or about ½ of the lamina of upper petal). Fruit c. 2 mm in diam., suborbicular, with usually rounded apex when mature (slightly or minutely apiculate when young), slightly or obscurely keeled, keel more distinct in slightly young fruits, somewhat rugose when dried and with 2 obscure apical pits, 1-seeded; seed 1-1.5 mm in diam., brownish.