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(Last Modified On 5/7/2022)
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Acceptance
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Accepted
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(Last Modified On 12/18/2021)
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Contributor Text
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M. Qaiser & Roohi Abid
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Contributor Institution
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Centre for Plant Conservation, University of Karachi – Pakistan
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Synonym Text
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Heteropappus holohermaphorditus Grierson in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinb. 26 (1):155. Fig. 16. 1964; R.R. Stewart, Ann. Cat. Vasc. Pl. W. Pak. & Kashm. 751. 1972; Grieson in Rech. f., Fl, Iran. Comp. V. Asteraceae 154: 7. 1982; Hajra in Hajra et al., Fl. Ind. 12: 130. 1995. Aster altaicus f. discoideus Kitamura in Fl. W. Pak. 143. 1964.
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Flower/Fruit
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Fl. Per.: May – September
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Type
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Type: India, Lahul, Gondla, 3050 m, 8.7.1938, Bor 12444, (Holo–DD, Iso–E, K!)
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Distribution
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Pakistan, India.
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Map Location
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B–8 Baltistan, Shagarthang valley, on rocks, 18.7.1892, J.F. Duthie s.n. (BM); Satpura to Deosai, 10,500 ft., E. Nasir & G.L. Webster 6365 (K, RAW); Skardu, 9000 ft., Kashmir, 3.8.1876, C.B. Clarke 29987 C (BM); Skardu, Baltistan, 2.7.1982, Saood Omer 362 (KUH); Ashkoley, Baltistan, 10500 ft., 10.8.1876, C.B. Clarke 30325 A (BM); Deosai, Chillam chowki road, 14000 ft., 23.8.1966, M.A. Siddiqi, Y. Nasir & Zaffar Ali 4192 (BM); 2 miles from Deosai on way to Askole Baltistan, 3.7.2003, Jan Alam & Mahboob Ali 2037 (KUH); Kande Nullah, Ghanche, Baltistan, perennial herb, yellow heads, 2960 m, 4.9.2003, Jan Alam & Mahboob Ali 2276 (KUH); B–9 Nubra, 11000 ft., T. Thomson s.n. (K); D–4 Ziarat Distt.: Ziarat, herb, florets yellow, on sandy loam, c. 40 cm tall, 9.09.1969, M. Qaiser 121 (KUH); Wali Tangi Quetta, erect, perennial, c. 70 (80–90) cm tall, rays absent, disc yellow, 22.5.1984, Saood Omer & Abdul Ghafoor 1785, 1786 (KUH); D–5 c. 62 km before Loralai, from Qila Saifullah on Loralai Saifullah road, annual erect herb, c. 25 cm tall, heads yellow, ± 1680 m, 1.6.1995, Tahir Ali & G.R. Sarwar, 2763 (KUH); Maryam mountain, Zhob, 19.10.2019, Kamran Ishaq Bahadi Khel 09 (KUH); ibid, 19.10.2019, Nazar Khan Mandokhail 09 (KUH); D–6 Dera Ghazi Khan Distt.: Highway Rest House, Fort Munro, erect shrub, head yellow, 30–40 cm tall, 27.9.1988, A. Ghafoor & Tahir Ali 3643 (KUH).
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Erect, perennial herbs, somewhat woody at base. Stems several, 15–45 cm tall, sparsely and minutely appressed pubescent and glandular especially near the inflorescence. Leaves sparsely, appressedly, pilose, glandular on either side, older becoming eglandular, basal leaves absent at flowering stage, cauline leaves oblanceolate or spathulate, upper ones broadly linear, often somewhat appressed to the stems, 1.3 – 3.5 cm long, (0.5–) 0.8–1 cm wide, sessile, attenuate at the base, obtuse and mucronate at the apex, margins entire. Capitula discoid, 3–10, borne on upto 6 cm long peduncles, in loose racemes or corymbs, (0.9–) 1.3–1.5 cm across. Phyllaries 1–2 seriate, lanceolate, 6–7 mm long, 1–1.7 mm wide, glandular, pilose, green or purplish (in the dried state), margins scarious. Ray florets absent. Disc florets yellow, 5.5–6 mm long, tube ca 1.5 mm long, limb unequally 5–lobed, larger lobe ca 2 mm long, remaining 4 lobes 1–1.2 mm long. Style appendages 0.4 – 0.5 mm long, lanceolate. Cypselas pale brown, obovate, 3–3.5 mm long, ca 1.4 mm wide, somewhat compressed, sericious, hairs brown, similar to pappus, sparsely glandular above, ribbed. Pappus simple, fawn or reddish brown, bristles ca 30, 4–4.5 mm long.
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