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!Marrubium vulgare L.

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Contributor Text: I.C. Hedge

Flower/Fruit: Fl. Per.: April-June. Fr.: July-September.

Type: Type: "Hab. in Europae borealioris ruderatis" (BM).

Distribution: Distribution: throughout Europe and much of Asia; introduced and naturalized in many other parts of the world including N. America, South Africa and Australia.

Comment/Acknowledgements: The differences between Marrubium vulgate and Marrubium anisodon given above are, in most cases, enough to separate the two species, but some specimens are intermediate (e.g. D-6 Quetta: Ziarat, Rasool Baksh 17, 27, KUH); cf Hedge & Lamond l.c. fig. 1, 1968. And in some parts of our area, the two species are sympatric (e.g. Chitral, N Waziristan, Swat and Kurram). They would be an interesting pair to study biosystematically. Marrubium vulgate is mainly a European-Mediterranean species and Marrubium anisodon more an inland steppic Asiatic species. The available chromosome counts give Marrubium vulgate as 2n = 34 and Marrubium anisodon 2n = 54 (cf Seybold, 1978).

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Map Location: B-6 Chitral: Drosh, 1370 m, Stainton 2281 (BM, E); B-7 Swat: Kalam, Sadruddin s.n. (KUH); Madian, Kazmi 9118 (KUH); Madian to Kolaila, Rech-inger 30697 (W); C-5? N Waziristan: Razmak, Qaiser 6270 (KUH); C-6 Kurram: Amal Kot to Sadda, 1400 m, Rechinger 30967 (W); Parachinar, Kazmi 4014 (KUH); near Ali Mangal Post, 1670 m, Siddiqi & Y. Nasir 6602(KUH); Kohat: Kohat to Peshawar, Qaiser & Sultanul Abedin 5789 (KUH); Kohat to Thal, 600 m, Rechinger 30199 (W).