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Published In: Exotic Botany 2: 111, pl. 115. 1806. (Exot. Bot.) Name publication detail
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
Contributor Text: I.C. Hedge
Flower/Fruit: Fl. Per.: January-April.
Type: Type: [India], Buchanan-Hamilton (K).
Distribution: Distribution: Indo-China, Burma, SW China, India, Kashmir, Pakistan.
Comment/Acknowledgements: A very common and widespread species in the lower zones of the Himalayas up to c. 1200 m and reaching its western limits in our area. An unmistakable species. The catkin-like fruiting spikes persist for most of the year; the flowers in contrast are often soon deciduous.
Illustration: Colebrookea oppositifolia Sm. (Illustration)
Map Location: B-6 Malakand: Malakand, Kazmi 152 (KUH); B-7 Hazara: 3 km from Balakot to Garhi Habibullah, Qaiser & Sultanul Abedin 5677 (E, KUH); Balakot to Kiwai, 900 m, Kazmi s.n. (KUH); C-7 Punjab: Jhelum distr., base of Mt Tilla, E. & Y. Nasir 9435 (KUH, RAW); Rawalpindi distr.: Panjar, McVean s.n. (E); Karor, Y. Nasir & Zaffar Ali 62 (RUH); Abdul Ghafoor 961 (KUH); Nurpur, E. Nasir & Siddiqi 9 (KUH); Karot, 750 m, Sultanul Abedin 2769 (E).

 

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Shrub up to 2.5 m, soft-pubescent or velutinous, eglandular throughout. Stems quandrangular when young. Leaves 10-20 x 5-8 cm, cuneate, apically acuminate, darkish green above, whitish canescent below; petiole thick, 1-3 cm. Flowers greenish white to mauve, often gynodioecious. Panicles widespreading. Spikes slender in flower 5-10 cm long, to c. 15 mm wide in fruit. Pedicels c. 0.5 mm or less. Calyx 1-2 mm in flower; teeth enlarging to c. 6 mm and prominently plumose in fruit. Corolla whitish 1.5-2 mm. Nutlets c. 0.5 mm long, obovoid, not trigonous, densely pilose, often only one developing.
 
 
 
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