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(Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
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Aceptación
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Accepted
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(Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
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Type:
Holotype: Arabia, Surdwd (Cl).
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Distribución:
Distribution: In drier parts of Africa, Arabia, India, Pakistan and Persia.
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Comment/Acknowledgements:
In Pakistan it is common in Sindh and Punjab.
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Illustration:
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Map Location:
C-6 Sargodha Dist.: 7 miles from Pail on way to Khushab, semi prostrate, with fruits, M.Qaiser & S.A. Faruqi 2748 (KUH); C-7 Campbellpur Dist.: Kahiri Murat, Attock 13.4.1957, R.R. Stewart & E. Nasir 27919 (RAW); Gujranwala Dist.: Kharian Forest, 94 miles from Lahore on way to Rawalpindi, erect, 40 cm high, flowers white, c. 1 cm across, along road side, soil sandy clay, S.Abedin 7601,7602 (KUH); Rawalpindi Dist.: Rawalpindi, alt. 1700 ft, R.R.Stewart 15129 (RAW); Sargodha Dist.: Sakesar Road, 31.7.1954, I.Ahmad s.n. (RAW); G-3 Bela Dist.: Sonmiani, 60 cm tall herb, flowers white, sandy soil, S.Abedin, S.I.AIi & S.A.Faruqi (KUH); G-4 Karachi Dist.: common between Manghopir and Bund Murad, Karachi, sandy soil, near water, carpels 7-8, S.M.H.Jafri 1345 (KUH); Drigh Road, Karachi, 15.4.1955, K.M.Khan s.n. (KUH); Manghopir, Karachi, 15.9.1956, S.A.Qadir s.n. (KUH); near Chemistry Block, University Campus, Karachi, 27.3.1967, A.Husain s.n. (KUH); Botany Department, University Campus, Karachi, 28.8.1967, A.Husain s.n. (KUH); near Chemistry Department University Campus, 4.10.1967, K.Gul s.n. (KUH); Darsano Chano, flowers white, sandy soil, 35 cm tall, sandy clay soil, S.Abedin 3580-3581 (KUH); Micro. Dept., near Guest House, University Campus, flowers white, erect, 35 cm long, sandy loam, S.Abedin & A.Husain 3801 (KUH); Botany Dept., University of Karachi, flowers white, 1-1.3 cm across, 40 cm tall herb, sandy soil, S.Abedin 5057,5062 (KUH); physics Dept., University of Karachi, with fruits, herb, 40 cm, sandy clay soil, S.Abedin 5077 (KUH); University Campus, Karachi, flowers white, soil sandy, S.Abedin 5082-5084, 5086-9, 5093-5, cm tall, (KUH); 21 miles from Karachi on way to Thatta, flowers white, 38-58 5101-17 erect herb, clayey soil, S.Abedin & A.Husain 5306,5308-5329, 5331-32, 5335-9, 5341-5 (KUH); Darsano Chano, flowers white, 1 cm across, 110 cm tall herb, sandy clay soil, S.Abedin 5431 (KUH); police post, Hub River, with fruits, 70 cm tall herb, S.Abedin 5369 (KUH); Thatta Dist.: Gharo, flowers white, 35 cm tall, along roadside, S.Abedin, S.I.Ali & S.A.Faruqi 177 (KUH).
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Erect, perennial herb, up to 90 cm tall, all parts stellate pubescent. Leaves with 3-7 mm long, filiform or linear stipule, and 0.5-1.5 cm long petiole; blade 2-5 cm long, 1-4 cm broad, ovate-oblong, coarsely serrate-crenate, entire towards the base, obtuse or somewhat truncate, stellate pubescent on both sides, darker above, cinereous below, penninerved, at base mostly 5 nerved. Flowers white, axillary, solitary or paired; pedicel 5-8 mm, in fruit up to 10 mm, rarely up to 15 mm long, with or without articulation at the top. Calyx 5 lobed, c.4 mm across, 4.6 mm long, slightly angular; lobes triangular-deltoid, acuminate, 2.3 mm long, 3-4 mm broad. Corolla 1-1.5 cm across; petals 7-8 mm long, 4-5 mm broad, oblique, unguiculate, claw hairy. Staminal tube up to 3 mm long, hairy. Carpels 7-8; locule, style branches and stigmas as many as carpels. Fruit depressed globose, 3-5 mm in diameter, incompletely enclosed by calyx; mericarps 2-3 mm long, radially 2-2.5 mm broad, dorsally 1-1.5 mm broad, reticulate towards the margin, not so towards the centre, glabrous except awns, indehiscent; awns 2,0.5 mm long, connivent, inflexed, Seeds 1.5-2 mm long, somewhat reniform, slightly longitudinally grooved on the dorsal surface, brown to dark brown.
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