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Published In: Compositae Indicae 49. 1876. (Compos. Ind.) Name publication detailView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 5/7/2022)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 12/18/2021)
Contributor Text : M. Qaiser & Roohi Abid
Contributor Institution :

Centre for Plant Conservation, University of Karachi – Pakistan

Type :

Syntypes: India: Kangra, Laka near Dharmsala, 3350 m, 17.10.1874, Clarke 23840 & 23869 (K!)

Distribution :

Pakistan (Kashmir), India.

Comment/Acknowledgements :

A very characteristic species, easily distinguished from other Aster species of our area by having sheath–like petiole and broad foliaceous, 8–14 mm long, 7–10 (–12) mm wide phyllaries.

Map Location :

B8/9 Kashmir: Near Sinthan Pass, Head of Bringhi valley, in cliffs and rocks faces, 11,500 ft.,  9.9.1940, Ludlow & Sherriff 8198 (BM); ibid, 24.10.1940, Ludlow & Sherriff 8286 (BM); Rajparyan sanctuary, 24.8.1943, 10,500 ft., Ludlow & Sherriff 9367 (BM); Kishtwar Distt., 11,500 ft., 31.7.1943, Ludlow & Sherriff 9263 (BM).


 

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Rhizomatous, perennial herbs with woody root stock, stem erect, scarcely flexuose, 15–20 (–30) cm tall, glabrous below, villous to white pubescent above, especially near the base of capitula. Leaves basal and cauline, ovate or oblong, 3–7 cm long, 3– 4.5 cm wide,  pilose on either side,  acute–acuminate, sinuate at the base, dentate, teeth acute, petiole 3–5 (–6.5) cm long, ± broad sheath–like. Capitula solitary or as many as 3 on stout peduncles, (2–) – 2.5 – 3 cm across. Phyllaries 3–seriate, foliaceous, 8–14 mm long, 7–10 (–12) mm wide. Ray florets 45, ligule mauve, ca 2 cm long. Disc florets tubular, mauve, 7–8 mm long excluding ovary.  Cypselas ca 4 mm long, brown, obovate, hairy. Pappus biseriate, simple, bristles white or ± reddish, almost equalling disc florets.

 
 
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