Ferula Communis

Large, glabrous perennial herb ± 0.9–1.8 m., tall, with a stout, solidly pithy stem; stem and branches terete, finely striate.

Fruit very strongly dorsally compressed, almost flat, broadly obovate to broadly elliptic, ± 10–17 × 5.5–12 mm., primary ribs narrowly prominent; stylopodia depressed, crenate-margined, shortly conical centrally; styles slender, recurved, ± 2 mm.; vittae 3 in each dorsal vallecula, but sometimes reduced to 2 or even 1 in some, or interrupted; commissure 4-vittate.