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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 1/14/2021)
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Contributor Text:
Abdul Ghafoor, Jan Alam & Roohi Abid
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Contributor Institution:
Centre for Plant Conservation, University of Karachi – PAKISTAN and Department of Botany, Hazara University, Mansehra, KPK - PAKISTAN
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Synonym Text:
Jurinea chaetolepis Boiss., Diagn. Ser. 2, 3: 50. 1856 & in Fl. Orient. 3: 570. 1875; Tricholepis spartioides Clarke, Comp. Ind.: 241. 1876.
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Flower/Fruit:
Fl. Per.: August –September Vern.: Barham Dandi, Zarmok, Yellow Thistle (Engl.)
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Type:
Type: Described from Afghanistan or Hab. in regno Cabulico ad Taizeen inter lapides (Griff. Journ. 11941).
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Distribution:
Afghanistan and Pakistan
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Comment/Acknowledgements:
Grows in sandy, arid and semi-arid soils in high mountainous regions in Afghanistan and Northern Areas of Pakistan.
The aerial parts of the plant are powdered and used for curing skin scabies, skin grains, fever, blood purification and as nerve tonic.
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Map Location:
A-6 Chitral Dist.: Bombrait, in rocks, 23.7. 1956, A. R. Beg 1527 (RAW); Kasavir, Chitral Gol, 1700 m, by stream, 2.7. 1977, Hakim Khan s.n. (RAW); Lowari Top, Chitral, 9-10000 ft., 16.7.63, M.A. Siddiqi 2287 (RAW, MICH); Chitral-Torikhoo, Shekhlasht Khote, alt. 2225 m, 43°27'95ʺE, 40°42'22ʺN, Perennial herb, 21 inches high, Fls. Light purple, grows on steep rock slope, 31 July 2007, Haidar Ali 6778 (KUH); Ca 1 mile from Lasht on way to Rosh Gol, Along River Indus (? ), 60 – 70 cm tall, Fls. Purple, 22.8.81, Kamal Akhter Malik & S. Nazimuddin 1657 (KUH); Chitral-Molikhoo, Surwat towards Terich Gol, 43° 26' 44' E, 40° 34' 42', 2332 m, Perennial herb, 14 inches high, fls. purple, grows on steep rocky slope, infrequent, 12 August 2007, Haidar Ali 7011 (KUH); Chitral-Chitral, Pasti, 42° 76' 89' E, 39° 97' 53' N, alt. 2477 m, Perennial herb, 24 inches high, rock crevice, 02 July 2007, Haidar Ali 6446 (KUH); B-7 Gilgit Dist.: Butkore valley, Bugrata, Dry rocky stony place, perennial herb, upto 30 cm tall, flowers brownish, common, 10.08.2008, Sher Wali Khan 1063 (KUH); C-7 Orakzai Agency: Alizai, Tirah herb, in fruits, common, stony soil, 1.10.1977, Hafizullah & Nisar 780 (ISL); Chaman Shai Tirah, common, 29.9.1977, Hafizullah & Nisar 728 (ISL); Kaddah Tirah, herb, erect fls. pink, stony soil, 28.9.1977, Hafizullah & Nisar 653 (ISL)
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Erect, up to 80 cm tall, basally woody, many-stemmed herb sparsely cottony hairy near base, glabrous green otherwise. Branches rigid, virgate, longitudinally densely leafy, bearing single terminal capitulum. Leaves sessile, erect to ± patent, narrowly linear, 1.8 – 2.5 cm long, ca 1 mm wide, entire, acute, uppermost appressed to base of Involucre. Capitula erect. Involucre cylindrical, 1.8 – 2 cm long, basally narrowly ± rotundate or hardly attenuate. Phyllaries multiseriate, pale green, glabrous, outer few rows setose, strongly appressed, innermost phyllaries narrowly linear-subulate, membranous. Receptacular bristles 3–5 mm long. Corolla pale pink, ca 2 cm long, tube filiform, gradually widened limb more or less as long as tube, with 5.5 – 6 mm long lobes. Cypselas pale-brown, oblong, ca 6 mm long, 1.75 – 2 mm wide, compressed, shiny, longitudinally striate, shortly marginate at apices, hilum sublateral. Pappus pale-yellow, multiseriate, scabrid, outer rows short, median bristles 1.2 – 1.5 mm long, innermost bristles 5, longer than median row, 1.6 – 1.8 cm long.
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