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(Last Modified On 5/20/2022)
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Acceptance
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Accepted
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(Last Modified On 1/8/2021)
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Contributor Text:
Abdul Ghafoor, M. Qaiser & Roohi Abid
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Contributor Institution:
Centre for Plant Conservation, University of Karachi – PAKISTAN
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Synonym Text:
S. roylei (DC.) Sch. Bip. subsp. stenophylla Lipsch., Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 225. 1968 et in Rod Saussurea 168. 1999; Y.S. Chen in Hong, Fl. Pan-Himal. 48 (2) Asteraceae II. Saussurea: 222. Map 48(2)-153. 2015.
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Flower/Fruit:
Fl. Per.: July – September
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Type:
Type: Kashmir, Anantnag, Lidder valley, Sousal Nullah, 4000 – 4267 m, 31 July, 1893, J. F. Duthie 13356 (LE –holo., BM-Iso.)
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Distribution:
Pakistan (Kashmir) India (Himachal Pradesh and Uttarkhand) and Nepal.
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Comment/Acknowledgements:
Commonly occurs on rock boulder scree and high alpine meadows from 3000 to 4700 m.
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Map Location:
B-8 Kashmir, Vicinity of Sonamarg, on the Sind River, 50 road-miles east-northeast of Srinagar, alt. 13000 ft., July-August 1928, F.G. Dickason 905 (MICH); Kashmir, Vicinity of Pahlgam, on East Liddar River, 27 road-miles north of Islamabad, on the mountain behind Pahlgam, alt. 13000 ft., July-August 1927, F.G. Dickason 904, 906 (MICH); Kashmir, Sonamarg, 12000 ft., Aug. 16, 1922, R.R. Stewart 7335 (RAW); Pahalgam, Kashmir, 12000 ft., Aug. 27, 1920, R.R. & I. D. Stewart 5834 (RAW); NW Himalayas, Sonamarg, Kashmir, 13000 ft., Aug. 5, 1921, R. R. & I. D. Stewart 6575 (KUH); B-9 Northern Areas, Deosai plains, Skardu, 15.7.1993, Dr Farrukh Hussain & Japanese team 338 (RAW); Sind Valley, Kashmir, 12000 ft., Clarke 30993A (K000885337); Kashmir, Muntnar Nullah, Bringhi Valley, 13000 ft., Fls. over, in rock boulder scree, 5.9. 40, F. Ludlow & G. Sheriff 8176 (BM 1253073); Kashmir, Sonamarg, 14000 ft., 1.8. 1928, R.R. Stewart 9825 A (KUH); Kashmir, Tragbol Pass, Gilgit Road, 12000 ft., Aug. 23, 1919, R.R. & I.D. Stewart 4600 (KUH).
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Perennial, 15 – 25 cm tall herb. Tap root dark brown, upto 15 cm long. Caudex usually unbranched or branched at ground level, with petiolar remains of previous years. Leaves in rosettes and cauline, all linear to narrowly elliptic, (7‒) 8 – 15 (-20) cm long, upto 1 cm broad, discolorous, upper surface greyish-green and hardly hairy, underneath densely whitish arachnoid hairy, attenuate to base, margins entire or sinuate dentate, ± revolute, acute-acuminate apically, cauline leaves similar but sessile and surmounting the capitula. Capitula solitary, rarely 2, on stem apices, 2.5 – 3 cm across. Phyllaries ca 5-seriate, purplish-brown, hairy, acuminate; outer phyllaries narrowly ovate-triangular, 10 – 13 mm long, 3 – 4 mm broad; median phyllaries ovate-elliptic, 12 – 17 mm long, 2.5 – 3.5 mm broad; inner ones linear, 16 – 18 mm long, 1.5 – 2.5 mm wide. Receptacular bristles 3 – 4 mm long, light brown. Corolla bluish-purple, 17 – 18 mm long, tube 10 – 12 mm long, limb shorter than tube, 6 – 9 mm long, with 4 – 5 mm long lobes. Anthers blackish, ca 8 mm long. Cypselas cylindrical, ca 2 mm long, brown, ribbed, shortly crowned at apex. Pappus bristles pale-brown, outer 2 – 5 mm long, inner ones 8 – 15 mm long.
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