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(Last Modified On 5/12/2022)
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Acceptance
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Accepted
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(Last Modified On 9/10/2020)
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Contributor Text:
Roohi Abid, M. Qaiser & Abdul Ghafoor
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Contributor Institution:
Centre for Plant Conservation, University of Karachi – Pakistan
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Synonym Text:
Streptorhamphus crambifolius Bunge, Beitr. Fl. Russl. 205.1852; Pavlov, Fl. Kazakh. 9: 525. Tab. 58. Fig. 2. 1966; Rech. f., Fl. Iran. Comp. 2. 122: 197. Tabs. 134, 135 & 202, Figs. 25-26. 1977; Kirp in Bobr & Tzvel, Fl. USSR 29: 322. Pl. 19, Fig. 3. 2000(Engl. Trans.); Breckle & Rafiqpoor, Field Guide Afghan. Fl. Veget. 288. Fig. At-110. 2010; Breckle et al., in Dittmann, Vasc. Pl. Afghan. Augm. Chklist 189. 2013; Cicerbita crambifolia (Bunge) Beauverd Bull. Soc. Bot. Genéve, II. Ser 2: 143. 1910; Mamgain & Rao in Hajra et al., Fl. Ind. 12: 267. 1995; Lactuca edelbergii Rech.f., in Biol. Skr. 2: 205. f. 145. 1955; Kitam., Fl. Afghan. 428. 1960.
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Flower/Fruit:
Fl. Per.: April-May
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Type:
Type: Habitat in den Felsenspalten des Tiumen-bai-tau” Lehmann s. n. (LE).
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Distribution:
Armenia, Azerbaijan?, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Nachichevan, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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Comment/Acknowledgements:
It is a submontane species, grows on stony and gravelly slopes, in crevices of limestone rocks with sandy-loam soils between 1200 – 3000 m.
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Map Location:
A-7 Chitral Dist.: Arando, S.W. Drosh, 30’ in height, florets yellow, on shady rock ledges, 1200m, 25.4.1958, J. D. A. Stainton 2296 (BM, RAW); Village Shagram, Minko Gol, c. 5 km North of Garam Chashma, erect herb, 35-40 cm tall, florets yellow, leaves basal large, latex white, common on dry sandy hill slopes, 19.6.1987, A. Ghafoor & S. Omer 2677 (KUH); Chitral, 2100m, 3.6.1995, Surg.Lt. Harris I.M.S.16300 (BM); Bakamak hill, Chitral, perennial herb, 18" tall, florets yellow, on rocky slopes (N 35˚ 49ˈ 09.6ˊˈ, E 71˚ 45ˈ 04.4ˈˈ), 2114 m, 28.5.2005, Haidar Ali 161 (KUH); A-8 Gilgit Dist.: Lower Naltar, erect perennial herb, rosette leaves, dark brown cypselas, ± 2600 m, 28.6.2003, Jan Alam & Karim Madad 1898 (KUH); Yoshah (Khaltaraw), perennial herb, 40-50 cm tall, on dry sandy and stony area, florets yellow, white latex, July 2001, Sherwali Khan & Shabbir Hussain 97 (KUH); B-9 Baltistan: Satpura lake, 3000m, 25.6.1955, E. Nasir & G.L. Webster 5835 (RAW); Skardu, erect, branched, perennial herb, infrequent species for Baltistan, florets yellow, c.2500 m, 2.7.2003, Jan Alam & Mehboob Ali 2004 (KUH).
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Perennial herbs with thick roots. Stem 15 – 30 (45) cm tall, sulcate, paniculately branched above, glabrous to puberlous.Leaves simple, shortly petiolate-dilated at the base, basal often rosulate, elliptical-oblong-obovate in outline, runcinate-pinnatipartite, undivided, obtuse, sinuate-dentate or somewhat incised, 15 – 30 (-40) x 4 – 10 cm, sparsely pilose; upper cauline leaves sessile, elliptic-lanceolate, 3 – 7 x 0.5 – 2 cm, semi-amplexicaul. Synflorescence a panicle. Capitula many, 1.5 – 2.5 x c. 1.5 cm, erect, campanulate, 25-30 florets per capitulum; peduncles thick, unequal, bracteolate. Involucre more or less cylindrical, 15 – 16 mm long. Phyllaries 5-6-seriate, acute; outermost 5 – 7 x 5 – 6 mm, ovate-triangular, finely appressed hairy; middle one 9 – 12 x 3 – 4 mm, lanceolate-broad linear; innermost 15 – 18 x 2 – 2.5 mm, linear-oblong. Florets 25 – 30 in each capitulum, yellow. Cypselas 4 – 5 x 2.5 – 3 mm with beak, dull-dark brown, oval- broadly elliptic, scabrid, much compressed, with 1-middle prominent rib on each side and 2 lateral more or less distinct ribs, apically attenuate into 3 – 4 mm long, concolorous beak. Pappus biseriate, outer short, inner 9 – 10 mm long, white.
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