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Project Name Data (Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
Type: Type: N.W. India, Royle (K).
Distribution: Distribution: Himalayas in India and W. Pakistan.
Comment/Acknowledgements: It grows in the inner Himalayan ranges from 2500 to 4000 m. Its carrot-like roots are edible.
Map Location: B-7 Hazara: Kagan, Saif ul Maluk, Siddiqi & Y. Nasir 2892 (RAW); Naran to Saif ul Maluk, Shaukat Ali, s.n. (RAW); Naran, Burtt 830 (E); B-8 Kashmir: Burzil Chowki, R.R. Stewart, 27.7.40 (RAW); Gilgit Agency: Deosai to Chillum, Webster & Nasir 6404 (GH, RAW).

 

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Plants up to 60 cm tall, pubescent. Roots fusiform. Leaves 1-2-pinnate; pinnae linear to lanceolate; margins regularly serrate. Involucral bracts lacking. Rays 7-10, unequal. Involucel of 5 lanceolate bractlets with long, white marginal hairs; apex acuminate. Petals white. Fruit cylindrical, c. 8 mm long; stylopodium conical; styles short; ridges conspicuous; furrows 1-vittate. Inner seed face deeply sulcate.
 
 
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