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Published In: Pakistan Journal of Botany 38: 50. 2006. (Pakistan J. Bot.) Name publication detail
 

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Contributor Text: S. I. Ali and I.G. Levichev
Flower/Fruit: Fl. Per.: April-July
Type: Holotype: Chitral, Shishi Valley, Madaglash, 8000 ft, between 35o35'N, 71o48'E and 35o45'N, 71oE. North slopes, beneath fir trees, golden yellow inside, pale green outside, in fine black soil, 6.5.1958, S.A. Bowes Lyon 624 (BM!, BM000821452).
Distribution: Distribution: N. Afghanistan, N. Pakistan and Kashmir.
Map Location: B-7 Kashmir, Doarian et Shardi: Kishenganga vy, 5900-6100 ft, 16-17. 5. 1954, F. Schmid 1794 (RAW cum duplicate!); B-9 N.W. Himalaya, Baltistan, Ghondokoro glacier, ± 14000 ft. 7.7.1955, E. Nasir & G. L. Webster 6019 (RAW); Tirdik, upper Bedashisa valley, near Sabu (near Len) not far from Tibet, Ladakh, Acantholimon vegetation, near eternal snow, on stony soil, 10.7.1976, F.Billiet et J. Leonard 6866 (KUH); Thelle, Baltistan, yellow flos, 21.5.1981, Saood Omer, S. Nazimuddin & A. Wahid 950 (KUH).

 

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Plants single or growing in groups, tiny, thin, bending, 5-8(13) cm in height. Bulb 4-6 mm in diameter, obliquely-dro p-shaped, covered by thin coriaceous, brown tunic, continued in short (0.5 cm) neck, surrounded by few thin sclerified roots. Bulbils in groups, brownish-brown, lobule-form, 0.9-1.4 mm in height, and about 0.7 mm in diameter, very finely-cellular, with a lateral and top attachment, basal bulbil not obvious against a background of others. Peduncle 2-6 cm in height, c. 0.5 mm in diameter. Basal leaf single, hair-l ike, c. 0.3-0.4 mm in diameter, bending, longer than the inflorescence. Peduncle leaves alternate narrowly lanceolate-linear, cuspidate, less than half the length of the inflorescence, 2-2.5 mm broad. Inflorescence paniculate, lax, 2-4(6)-flowered, on thin bending pedicels. Tepals 4.8-6.3 mm long, nearly 1 mm broad, obovate, narrowed to the base, hardly pointed, golden-yellow inside, greenish outside, inner tepals a little bit longer, broader, tip rounded. Anthers yellow, oblong, 0.8 mm long, dehiscence roundish 0.5 mm in diameter. Capsule obovate, narrowed in a long stipe, less than half the length of the perianth.
 
 
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