Ferula sinkiangensis K. M. Shen

This species is used in Xinjiang as a regional substitute for the traditional Chinese medicine “a wei” (Ferula assafoetida Linnaeus).

Plants 0.5–1.5 m, strongly onion-scented. Rootstock thick, conical. Stem stout, pubescent, paniculate-branched, lower branches alternate, upper branches verticillate, often purplish red. Leaf blade gray-green, triangular-ovate in outline, ternate-3-pinnatisect; ultimate segments broadly elliptic, ca. 10 mm, shallowly lobed or toothed, base decurrent, adaxially sparsely pubescent, abaxially densely puberulent. Terminal umbel subsessile, lateral umbels (1–)2–4, opposite or alternate, peduncles elongate, exceeding terminal; umbels 8–12 cm across; bracts absent; rays 5–25, puberulent; bracteoles broadly lanceolate, deciduous. Petals abaxially puberulous. Stylopodium low-conic, base dilated, undulated-margined. Fruit ellipsoid, 10–12 × 5–6 mm, sparsely puberulent; vittae 3–4 in each furrow, unequal, 12–14 on commissure. Fl. and fr. Apr–Jun.

W Xinjiang (Yining).

Desert gravels; 800–900 m.

Ferula sinkiangensis là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hoa tán. Loài này được K.M.Shen mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1975.

新疆阿魏（学名：Ferula sinkiangensis）是伞形科阿魏属的植物，是中国的特有植物。分布于中国大陆的新疆等地，生长于海拔850米的地区，一般生于荒漠中或带砾石的粘质土坡上，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。