Published In:
The Gardeners' Chronicle & Agricultural Gazette 47: 398. 1910. ( Gard. Chron.) 
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(Last Modified On 5/7/2022)
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Acceptance
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Accepted
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(Last Modified On 12/18/2021)
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Contributor Text
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M. Qaiser & Roohi Abid
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Contributor Institution
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Centre for Plant Conservation, University of Karachi – Pakistan
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Synonym Text
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Aster diplostephioides (DC.) C.B. Clarke var. falconeri C.B. Clarke, Comp. Ind. 45.1876. Aster diplostephioides (DC.) C.B. Clarke subsp. falconeri (C.B. Clarke) Onno in Bibl. Bot. 106: 69. 1932. Erigeron falconeri (C.B. Clarke) Botsch. in Acta Inst. Bot. Acad. Sci. URSS 21:341. 1966.
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Flower/Fruit
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Fl. Per.: May– July
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Type
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Type: Kashmir, Southern range, Falconer 561 (Holo–K!, Iso–S)
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Distribution
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India, Pakistan (Kashmir).
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Map Location
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B–7 Hazara Distt.: Kagan valley, 9000 ft., 18.7.1896, Inayat 19718 (K); ibid, 12400 ft., 20.7.1896, Inayat 19718 (K); Makra, Kagan Hazara, 13000 ft., 16.7.1899, Inayat s.n. (K); Saif–ul–Maluk, 21.7.1954, Ch. Shaukat Ali 163 (BM, RAW); Kaghan valley, lulusar, 10,500 ft., pale yellow flowers, rare, S. M. Anwar Kazmi s.n. (KUH); B–8 Gilgit Distt.: Burzil Pass, Gilgit Road (Deosai plains), 27.7.1940, R. R. Stewart 19862 (RAW); ibid, R. R. Stewart 22094 (K); Burzil Pass, North slope of alpine meadows, ± 13000 ft., R. R. Stewart 22094 (K); Below Deosai plain, 12500 ft., 22.7.1928, B.B. Osmaston 81 (K); Deosai plain, ± 14000 ft., Siddiqui, Y. Nasir & Zaffar Ali 4193 (BM, RAW); Deosai Pass, Baltistan, M.A. Siddiqui et al., 4193 (K); Deosai, Baltistan, ± 13000ʹ, E. Nasir & G.L. Webster 6384 (RAW); Shamuskar Top, Deosai, on grassy slope, erect perennial herb upto 17 ʺ tall, outer florets purple, disc yellow, 4045 m, fairly common, Jan Alam & Fazal Karim 1427 (KUH); Phatako, Sikandar Abadalagar # 2, on silt soil, shaddy places, perennial herb with yellow blue flower, 14.9.2004. Sajjad Haider 62 (KUH); B8/9 Kashmir: Above Gulmarg, Kashmir, 3350–3655 m, 31.5.1892, Duthie 11289 (E); Gulmarg to Kilam, 8600–11500 ft., 1877, Aitchison 55 (K); Gulmarg, 9000 ft., 18.7.1891, G.A. Gammie s.n. (K); Gulmarg catchment area, 10000 ft., 11.7.1933, Joan Venning s.n. (K); Gulmarg, Kashmir, 9500 ft., 5.8.1919, H.H. Rich 1218 (K); Gulmarg, lower slopes of Apharwat, among bushes, 10500 ft., Joan Venning 42 (K); Above Gulmarg, 1100 ft., G.L.C. Fuller 125 (K); near Gangabal lakes, Kashmir, July, 1919, R. R. & I. D. Stewart 4407A (RAW); Kashmir, Rajdhiangan Pass, on alpine meadows, ± 11000ʹ, 27.7.1939, R. R. StewartLiddar valley, Kashmir, Inayat 25650 (K); ibid, 10000 ft., 7.7.1902, J.R. Drumond 14144 (K); Marg, above Liddar valley, 12.7.1902, J.R. Drumond 14302 (K); Liddar valley, 34.10 N, 75.15 E, 12500 ft., 2.8.1965, J. D. A. Stainton 5012 (BM); Crest of Pir Panjal above Tilpatra forest, near Rampur 10–12000 ft., 7.7.1940, Ludlow & Sherriff 7748 (BM); Tragbol Pass, 3110 m, C.B. Clarke 29241 (K); ibid, Kashmir, 10200 ft., 19.7.1876, C.B. Clarke 2929A (K); Sinthan Pass, Kashmir, 12000 ft., grassy rocky slopes, 28.6.1939, F. Ludlow 150 (BM); Pahlgam, Kashmir, 10,000 ft., July 24, 1920, R.R. Stewart 5424 (KUH); ibid, 11000 ft., Aug 6, 1920, R.R. Stewart 5560 (RAW); Sonamarg, common and handsome on meadows, ± 11000 ft., August 5, 1921, R.R. Stewart 6578 (RAW); Kamri Pass, 11 –13000 ft., Giles 683 (K); Wurdwun valley, Kashmir, Lance 138 (K); Bedori, District Poonch Azad Kashmir, flowers blue, 10,000–12,000 ft., 2.7.1952, R.R. Stewart & E. Nasir 23998 (KUH, RAW); Bangar, Kishtwar Distt.: 11000 ft., 30.7.1940, Ludlow & Sherriff 7855 (BM); Bangas, Muzaffarabad, Kashmir, 21.7.1899, J.F. Duthie s.n. (K); Thora, Muzaffarabad, 27.7.1897, J.F. Duthie s.n. (K); Chonsar, Muzaffarabad, 12.7.1899, J.F. Duthie s.n. (K); Neelam valley, Azad Kashmir, on open grassy slope, flower purple, 23.08.2015, Shabir Ijaz 120 (KUH); ibid, herb, on alpine slopes, 15.7.2018, Shabir Ijaz s.n. (KUH).
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Perennial, viscid herbs. Rootstock a branched caudex, usually surrounded above by marcescent leaves. Stem erect, 10–45 cm tall, thick, unbranched, pubescent–glandular or villous, leafy, almost continuous upto the base of capitulum. Leaves discolorous, pubescent – densely villous. Basal leaves almost sessile, oblanceolate – spathulate, acute – obtuse, entire, narrowed towards base, 5–2 (–15) cm long, 0.1 – 1.5 (–2) cm wide, cauline leaves sessile, lanceolate – elliptic, acute, semiamplexicaul, villous, 2.5–4 (–6) cm long, 0.8 – 1.5 (–2) cm wide, upper most similar to lower ones but smaller, 1–2.5 cm long, 0.2–0.5 cm wide, overlapping and surrounding capitulum. Capitula terminal, solitary, 2–3.5 (–4.5) cm across, peduncles leafy. Involucre 2 – 2.5 (–3) cm in diameter, densely villose, mostly at the base, surrounded by 3–4, lanceolate, acuminate leafy bracts. Phyllaries 2–seriate, imbricate, lanceolate, longer than disc florets, acuminate, outer ones 10–12 mm long, 0.8 – 1.2 mm wide, inner 14–15 mm long, 0.5 – 0.8 mm wide. Receptacle convex, alveolate. Ray florets bluish or bluish mauve above, white below, 2 – 3 (–4) cm long, filiform–linear, tube ca 3 mm long. Disc florets yellow or orange, 5–6 mm long, tube ca 2 mm long, limb 3–4 mm long including 0.5–1 mm long, broadly triangular lobes. Cypselas 2.5–4 mm long, ca 1.2 mm wide, brown – dark brown, oblong, with white soft long hairs, glandular. Pappus biseriate, outer bristles 1 – 2.5 mm long, white, palaceous, inner 6–7 mm long, pale brown–buff, barbellate.
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