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Published In: Oesterreichische Botanische Zeitschrift 97: 263. 1950. (Oesterr. Bot. Z.) Name publication detail
 

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Contributor Text: Rubina Abid, S. Raza Mehdi & Abdul Ghafoor
Contributor Institution:

Department of Botany, University of Karachi, Karachi

and

Centre for Plant Conservation, University of Karachi – Pakistan

Synonym Text:

Scorzoneria koeieana Rech. f., Dan. Biol. Skr. 8, 2: 194 1955; S. fusca Kitamura, Acta Phytotax. Geobot. 19: 104 (1963).

Flower/Fruit:

Fl. Per.:April-July

Type:

Type: Afghanistan: Band-i-Amir, 30. VI. 1940, Codrington  s. n. (BM).

Distribution:

Iran?, Afghanistan and Pakistan (Central Asian countries?)

Comment/Acknowledgements:

This is a new record for Flora  of Pakistan; occurs above  2500 m.

Map Location:

A-6 Chitral: Urghosh Dhok, M. A. Siddiqui & A. Rahman 26814 (RAW); B-6 ca. 28 km from Garm Chashma on way to Shah Saleem, Tahir Ali, S. Z. Hussain & Gohar Khan 2251, 2288, 2291 (KUH); Between Laspur and Shendur Pass, A.Ghafoor & S. Omer 3137 (KUH); Yarkhun, 9000 ft., dry steep Artemisia covered slopes, 16.6.1958, S. A. Bowes Lyon 932 (BM)


 

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Perennial, non-tuberous, subscapiform, 20 – 30  cm tall herb.  Root 5 – 10  cm wide, bearing cotton-like hairs. Stem reduced, branched. Leaves linear, (8-)12 – 14 x 0.2 – 0.4 cm, folded, 3-veined, pubescent, semiamplexicaul, entire, apex tapering and obtuse. Peduncles many, upto 14 cm long, smaller than leaves, leafless, hairy. Capitula 12 – 18 x 5 – 6  mm, buds turbinate. Involucre cylindrical, ± 10 mm at anthesis. Phyllaries covered with grey or black hairs except mid rib, 20-23 in number, entire; outer ones 5 – 6 x 1 – 2  mm, lanceolate, apex acute or acuminate; middle ones 12 – 14 x 2 – 2.5  mm, oblong, acute; inner ones 15 – 18 x 2 – 3  mm, lanceolate, acute. Florets yellow, exceeding from the involucres. Cypselas  12 – 15  mm long, deeply sulcate, ribs muricate or smooth, yellow. Pappus uniseriate, bristles 38-40, 16 – 18  mm long, plumose below, scabrous above, yellow.

 
 
 
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