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(Last Modified On 5/13/2022)
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Acceptance
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Accepted
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(Last Modified On 9/7/2020)
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Contributor Text:
A. Ghafoor
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Contributor Institution:
Centre for Plant Conservation, University of Karachi – Pakistan
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Synonym Text:
Zollikoferia stenocephala Boiss., Fl. Orient. 3: 823. 1875; Launaea chondrilloides auct. non Desf. sensu Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 3: 415. 1881; Launaea resedifolia auct. non (L.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 1: 351. 1891; R. R. Stewart, Ann. Cat. Vasc. Pl. W. Pak. & Kashm. 763. 1972; Bhandari, Fl. Ind. Desert 205. Fig. 67. 1995; Mamgain & Rao, l.c. 309. 1995; L. cassiniana sensu Rech. f., Fl. Iran. Comp. 2, 122: 157. 1977-pro parte (non Jaub. & Spach).
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Flower/Fruit:
Fl. Per.: Almost all year round Vern.: Phulan Valo Untkantalo
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Type:
Holotype: Pakistan: Baluchistan, 1851, Stocks s. n (G).
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Distribution:
Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.
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Comment/Acknowledgements:
It is a very typical plant and commonly growing on the loose sand, often forming large patches on sand-dunes, in depressions on muddy sandy-silty moist soil.
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Map Location:
C-7 Attock Dist.: Campbellpur, dry soil, 30.3.1936, R. R. Stewart 15310 (RAW, KUH); ibid. May, 1939, D. R. Jaggi s. n. (RAW), ibid, with yellow latex, heads yellow, 360 m, 5. 5. 1965, M. A. Siddiqi 3413 (RAW); Gujrat Dist.: c. 3 miles from Saray-i-Alamgir on way to Gujrat, 22.3.1988, K. A. Malik 1236 (KUH); ibid, S. Nazimuddin 1159 (KUH); C-8 Sialkot Dist.: near village Mari, between Tane and Kotli Loharan, Mavala-Gujrat Road, erect, c. 25 cm., flowers yellow, 14.10.1988, A. Ghafoor and T. Ali 4300 (KUH); D-4 Lasbella Dist.: Bella, between Hub river and Uthal., ungrazed sandy plains, 8.4.1965, Jennifer Lamond 264 (KUH); c. 30 miles from Karachi on way to Bella, straggling, ligules yellow, 16.1.1970, S. Abedin 4269 (KUH); c. 29 miles from Jhal Jao on way to Bella, prostrate, ligules yellow, 19.10.1978, K. A. Malik & S. Nazimuddin 1159 (KUH); between Bella and Uthal, ligules yellow, 18.9.1986, A. Ghafoor & S. Omer 1619 (KUH); D-5 Loralai Dist.: 4 miles from Loralai on way to Qila Saifullah, c. 15 cm tall, ligules yellow, white latex, 19.5.84, S. Omer & A. Ghafoor 1628 (KUH); D-7 Sargodha Dist.: Jinnah Garden Sargodha, prostratre herb, sandy-clay soil, ligules yellow, 1.5.1969, S. Abedin 2518 (KUH, B); E-6 Mianwali Dist.: Daud Khel, March, 1954, R. R. Stewart s. n. (RAW); ibid, Rahim Yar Khan Dist.: 1 mile from Rajanpur on way to D. G. Khan, 20 cm tall, sandy soil, 22.5.1972, S. Abedin and AbrarHussain 9577, 9578 (KUH); F-3 Turbat Dist.: 20 miles from Gaish Kaur on way to Hoshab, sandy soil, procumbent, 24.3.1971, S. Abedin & Abrar Hussain 6007 (KUH); Khuzdar Dist.: 6 miles from Awaran on way to Khuzdar, spreading, ligules yellow, 15.10.1978, K. A. Malik & S. Nazimuddin 1078 (KUH); Turbat Dist.: between Balagther Plain and Hoshab, Hoshab-Panjgur Rd., growing on rocks, prostrate, ligules yellow, 29.2.1988, S. Omer, M. Qaiser & Y. Nasir 2108 (KUH); G-1 Turbat Dist.: Akra Dam Area, c. 15 km from Gwadar on way to Jiwani, ligules yellow, latex yellow, 1.10.1986, A. Ghafoor & S. Omer 1827A (KUH); G-2 Turbat Dist.: 11 miles from Turbat on way to Awaran, sandy, herb with yellow flowers, 5 cm in height, 9.4.1969, S. Abedin, S. I. Ali & S. A. Farooqi 1513 (KUH); 28½ miles from Mund on way to Sunstar, gravel clay, c. 20 cm tall, ligules yellow, 12.4.69, S. Abedin, S. I. Ali & S. A. Farooqi 1865 (KUH); 10 miles from Turbat on way to Mund, sandy clay, procumbent, fls. dirty brown, 9.4.1969, S. Abedin, S. I. Ali & S. A. Farooqi 1504 (KUH); 62 miles from Pasni on way to Gwadar, prostrate herb, ligules yellow, herb growing on sandy soil, 26.4.1970, M. Qaiser, A. Raza & Abrar Hussain 990 (KUH); 10 miles from Gwadar on way to Sunstar, prostrate wild herb, ligules yellow, 27.4.1970, M. Qaiser, A. Raza & Abrar Hussain 1002 (KUH); 17 miles from Pasni on way to Turbat, erect herb, 5. 4. 1972, A. Ghafoor & M. Qaiser 172 (KUH); 8 miles from Turbat on way to Pasni, prostrate herb with yellow ligules, 5.4.1972, A. Ghafoor & M. Qaiser 133 (KUH); near Pasni, erect, flowers yellow, 3. 4. 1988, T. Ali 852, 861 (KUH); G-3 Lasbela Dist.: Sonmiani, stony hanging or spreading on rocks, ligules yellow, 17.1.1965, S. M. H. Jafri 3984 (KUH); c. ½ mile from Sonmiani, ligules yellow, 17.1.1965, S. I. Ali s. n. (KUH); 31 miles from Karachi, Sonmiani, herb sandy habitat, ligules yellow, 45 cm tall, 5.2.1969, S. Abedin S. I. Ali 718 (KUH); Sonmiani, herb, densely branched, basally in sandy soil, 40 cm tall, ligules yellow, 24.2.1969, S. Abedin & S. A. Farooqi 1202, 1203, 1225, 1228 (KUH); ibid, 2 miles from Hub on way to Sonmiani, decumbent herb growing in sandy soil, ligules yellow, 26.2.1969, S. Abedin, S. I. Ali & A. Ghafoor 1234, 1250 (KUH); G-4 Karachi Dist.: Drigh Road, near Karachi, semi-desert, Feb. 1945, W. T. Stearn 22 (K); Karachi, Jan.,1936, M. Nath 15297 (KUH); Drigh Road opp. Station, growing sandy roadside, seeds finally ribbed, not winged, 6.5.1956, S. M. H. Jafri 1448 (KUH); Malir, 3.12.1958, M. Amanullah s. n. (KUH); on way to Hawks Bay, grows in rocky places, 10.9.1967, M. Ahmed s. n. (KUH); Cape Monze, herb with whitish flowers, 23.1.1985, R. Yousuf 45 (KUH); ibid, 21.10.1986, Razia Ahmed 43 (KUH); ibid, Clifton beach, near DHA Degree College for Women, Ph. VIII, heads yellowish, 18.1.1995, S. Omer s. n. (KUH); G-5 Tharparker Dist.: Bhurki, 4 miles from Hathango, prostrate herb, grow in muddy soil, ligules yellow, 22.1.1970, S. Abedin, S. I. Ali & S. A. Farooqi 4307 (KUH); G-6 Tharparkar Dist.: Nagar Parkar, branches spreading, ligules yellow inside, whitish-brownish outside, 29.1.1970, S. Abedin, S. I. Ali & S. A. Farooqi 4463 (KUH).
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Perennial, 10 – 70 cm tall herb with somewhat woody rootstock and a few or solitary ± divaricately branched floral stems. Leaves lanceolate to ribbon-like in appearance, (3-) 6 – 18 x 0.3 – 4.5 cm, subamplexicaul, simple to irregularly pinnatifid with acute segments, upper leaves gradually reducing, at top becoming small amplexicaul bracts. Capitula 35-60-flowered, on 1 – 6 cm long, bracteolate, patent to erect peduncles, terminal, occasionally borne in an intricately branched synflorescenc. Involucre at anthesis 10 – 15 mm long, enlarged to c. 2 cm at fruiting. Phyllaries basally not or slightly hardened, 3-seriate; somewhat reticulately veined; outer ones ovate, acute; innermost phyllaries 8-12, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 10 – 15 mm long, white-scarious at apices. Florets with c. 3 – 3.5 mm long tube and 7.5 – 14 mm long, pale-yellowish ligules. Anther tube excluding appendages 2.5 – 3.5 mm long. Style branches mostly with blackish sweeping hairs. Fruiting receptacle 2.5 – 5 mm across. Cypselas heteromorphic, columnar to cylindrical, 3 – 6.5 mm long; inner ones with 4 main ribs and 8 secondary ribs, papillose; outer cypselas cylindrical, slightly stout, curved and shorter than inner ones, with 5 main ribs and 10 secondary ribs, densely papillate. Pappus dimorphic, 8 – 14 mm long, persistent, white, inner pappus row of longer bristles.
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