Japanese name: ミヤマゼンゴ（深山前胡） Scientific name:Coelopleurum multisectum
[Overview]
A perennial 40–60 cm tall, found in the alpine zone.
The stem is hollow and branches in the upper part.
The leaves are alternate and 2- to 5-times ternately pinnately compound.
The leaflets are long-ovate to ovate, 1–3 cm long, with serrate margins.
The leaf stalks swell into a sheath and are often tinged with red.
Compound umbels at the stem tip bear many small white 5-petaled flowers.
The inflorescence has no involucral bracts, but has linear to lanceolate-oblong bractlets.
The flower stalks have short hairs.
The fruit is an oblong mericarp about 5 mm long, without hairs; there is 1 oil duct under each dorsal groove and 2 on the commissural face.
