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Krubera is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apiaceae. The genus is also in the subfamily of Apioideae. It only contains one known species Krubera peregrina (L.) Lowe

Description
Krubera is a

glabrous annual, 15-50. Stems dichotomously branched, solid, rigid, somewhat flexuous, angular-furrowed. Leaves 10-20 cm, ovate-oblong in outline; lower leaves long-petioled with broad-sheathed base, 3-pinnatisect, ultimate lobes 2-5mm, crowded, oblong-linear, obtuse and mucronulate (Having, or tipped with, a small point or points), entire or 2-3 fid. Peduncles unequal in length,

glabrous, dichotomously branching annual, stems 10-30cm. basal leaves 3 pinnate, with petiole 3-15cm, elliptic to ovate in outline, finely divided, ultimate segments 2-3 x 0.5mm. Umbels 3-5 rayed, rays thickening as the fruit ripens; terminal umbel shortly stalked, overtopped by the long stalked lateral umbels; bracts 0-3, ovate-lanceolate; bracteoles 3-6, like bracts, petals white, fruit 5-7 x 4-5 mm

Flowering Time : April – May Colour of Flowers: White

calyx of 5 minute teeth, petals expanded, white with the apex incurved, fruit oblong, ovate, schizocarps with equidistant and subequal ridges, usually biennial, glabrous,

Flowering IV – VI Bearing Up to 30 cm.

Range and habitat
Its native range stretches around the Mediterranean sea, from southern Europe, (within Italy, Portugal, Sardinia, Spain and Sicily), North Africa (within Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia), Macaronesia (within the Canary Islands, Cape Verde and Madeira) and Western Asia (within Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, and Turkey).

Altitude 0 - 500 m. Habitat - Ruderal, arvense (in the fields).

It was on the IUCN's Red List in 1989 of threatened status for the Maltese Islands and was been listed in the Red Data Book (1st ed.) It later became extinct in Malta.

Taxonomy
The genus name of Krubera is in honour of Johann Julius Kruber (d. 1826), a doctor and botanist in Moscow, Russia. The Latin specific epithet of peregrina is derived from Latin 'Peregrinus, is a name originally meaning "one from abroad", that is, a foreigner, traveller, or pilgrim. It was first described and published in Gen. Pl. Umbell. on page 103 in 1814. Then the species was published in Man. Fl. Madeira Vol.1 on page 361 in 1864.