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(Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
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Acceptance
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Accepted
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(Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
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Flower/Fruit:
Fl.Per. May-Aug.
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Type:
Type: Kashmir, Sonmarg, 3000 m., 19.7.21, R.R. Stewart 6304 (RAW, K).
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Comment/Acknowledgements:
Very similar to Corydalis cornuta Royle but fruits narrow linear, rarely slightly oblong, 1.5-2 mm broad, leaf segments not so extended at the apex of leaves. Also resembles Corydalis felicina Prain but larger in size and leaf segments, flowers small with prominent inner petal apex. It seems to have slightly succulent habit and prefers wet habitats.
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Map Location:
A-7 Chitral, Ziarat, N. Ali s.n. (K) ; B-7 Hazara Dist.: Mushkpuri above Nathiagali, Siddiqui & Nasir 5965 (RAW); Thandiani, 11.8.51, E. Nasir (RAW); Kalapani, R. R. Stewart 27750 (RAW); without locality, Stewart Herb. no. 10495 (RAW); above Shogran, Z. Ali 5916 (RAW); Mt. Ilam, in forest, R. R. Stewart 24356 (RAW) Swat, Bahrein, R. R. Stewart 24481 (RAW), Jabba, Swat, E. Nasir 3958, 3932 and 2922 (RAW); B-8 Kashmir, Sonmarg, R. R. Stewart 6304 (RAW); Armium to Harnag, R. R. Stewart 9360 (RAW); Pahlgam, R. R. Stewart 9236 (RAW); Pahlgam, leaves rather succulent, in forest, R. R. Stewart 9234 (RAW); and R. R. Stewart 5753 (RAW); Tragbol, damp shady soil, R. R. & I. D. Stewart 4951 (RAW); Lidder valley, R. R. Stewart 12809 (RAW); above Taubat, R. R. & I. D. Stewart 17908 (RAW); Pahlgam, Lidder valley, R. R. & I. D. Stewart 8180 (RAW) ; below Badwan, Kishenganga valley, 3000 m., in shade, R. R. Stewart 19581 (RAW); below Badwan, in forest shade, R. R. & I. D. Stewart 19249 (RAW) ; above Gulmarg, 3300 m, fls pale yellow, R. R. Stewart 10647 (RAW); above Gulmarg, succulent, in shade, R. R. Stewart 10384 (RAW); Sonmarg, erect, branching, in damp and shady place, fls. yellow, R. R. Stewart 7302 (RAW); Sonmarg, R. R. & I. D. Stewart 3484 (RAW); Aru-Nafran, Upper Lidder valley, R. R. Stewart 12808 (RAW) (mixed with C. longipes DC.); Gulmarg, fls. yellow, its roots are said to be used in eye diseases, mamiri. Badhwar 5725 (RAW). C-7 Rawalpindi Dist.: Murree hills, Stewart & Nasir 29164 (RAW); Changla gali, R. R. & I. D. Stewart 3439 (RAW); R. R. Stewart 3944 (RAW); Murree hills, Changla gali, top, R.R. Stewart s.n. (RAW); Changla gali, E. Nasir s.n. (RAW); C-6 Kurrum, Aitchison 298 and 324 (K).
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Annual or biennial herb, sometimes perennating with a very short underground rhizome, somewhat weak, branched, sparsely leafy, 10-30 (-50) cm long, glabrous, ± glaucous, sometimes slightly succulent. Leaves ternate, basal and lower long petioled, 10-15 cm long, 3-5 cm broad; pinnae or lobes suborbicular-ovate, cuneate, petiolulate, 5-10 (-15) mm long, and about as broad, 3-lobulate; lobules (ultimate segments) obovate-oblong. 5-10 mm long, cuneate below, ± rounded at apex, obscurely mucronate; petiole about as long as the lamina, much smaller in the upper leaves; petiolule much smaller, filiform. Racemes simple, terminating the branches, many, 5-10-flowered, lax, 3-5 cm long; bracts foliaceous, small, upper gradually becoming entire, linear and much smaller. Flowers pale yellow with darker tips, 6-10 mm long, including slender spur, about half as long; pedicels 2-4 (-5) mm long in fruit, deflexed. Sepals minute, inconspicuous. Upper petal acute to subacuminate at apex, narrow, sometimes with an obscure dorsal wing; lower petal not saccate at base, simple. Capsule linear-oblong, 12-15 mm long, 1.5-2 mm broad, subtorulose, 6-8-seeded, uni- or sub-biseriate, apex subrounded, base somewhat narrowed and seedless; style c. 2 mm long, curved at apex with broad stigma; seeds c. 1.5 mm in diam., black, very minutely tubercled.
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