Home Flora of Pakistan
Home
Name Search
Families
Genera
Species
District Map
Grid Map
Inventory Project
Fumaria indica Pugsley Search in The Plant ListSearch in IPNISearch in Australian Plant Name IndexSearch in NYBG Virtual HerbariumSearch in Muséum national d'Histoire naturelleSearch in Type Specimen Register of the U.S. National HerbariumSearch in Virtual Herbaria AustriaSearch in JSTOR Plant ScienceSearch in SEINetSearch in African Plants Database at Geneva Botanical GardenAfrican Plants, Senckenberg Photo GallerySearch in Flora do Brasil 2020Search in Reflora - Virtual HerbariumSearch in Living Collections Decrease font Increase font Restore font
 

 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
Flower/Fruit: Fl. Per.: March June.
Type: Type: C. Asia, Soongaria, Karilin & Kirilov 1840 (LE) - many other cotypes from Afghanistan, India and Pakistan.
Distribution: Distribution: India, Pakistan, Afghanistan & C. Asia; introduced elsewhere.
Comment/Acknowledgements: Very similar to Fumaria parviflora Lam. but leaf segments flat or almost fiat, very much like those in Fumaria vaillantii Lois., from which it differs by its bracts which are as long or slightly longer than pedicels. It is said to be a hybrid between the 2 species, Fumaria parviflora Lam. and Fumaria asepala Boiss., both recorded by Blatter & Fernandez (l.c. 675-676) from Waziristan are probably mis-identification of this species. These species do not occur in our area, but closely resemble Fumaria indica in having bracts as long as the pedicels. Used as fodder and in local medicines as blood purifier.
Photo: Fumaria indica Pugsley (Photo)
Map Location: B-7 Swat, above Manglaur, 8.4.56, R. R. Stewart (RAW); Saidu, field weed, R. R. Stewart 24908 (RAW); Mingora, moist cult. field, fis. violet, 9.4.70, S. I. Ali & S. A. Faruqi 1603 (KUH) ; Abbottabad, R. R. Stewart 14620 and 16363 (RAW); B-8 Azad Kashmir, to Bagh, 16.4.52, Stewart & Nasir (RAW); C-6 Peshawar, Baldev Raj 19386 (RAW); Malana Tangi, Harsukh 14768 (RAW) ; C-7 Rawalpindi, Topi park, Khanna 90 (RAW); Rawalpindi, Kartar Chand s.n. (RAW); Wah garden, Wah, fls. pink, M. Qaiser 256 (KUH); Sultanul Abedin 266 (KUH); Islamabad, M. Qaiser 293 (KUH); Rawalpindi, M. Nath 13 (KUH); D-6 Dera Ismail Khan, Herb. Surv. Med. Pl. no. 925 (KUH); D-8 Lahore, R. R. & I. D. Stewart 817 (RAW); near Bhai pheru, Ali, Faruqi & Sultanul Abedin 2232 (KUH); Changa Manga, Shariq & Altaf Bot. Surv. Med. Pl. Herb no. 6917 (KUH); D-5 near Loralai, M. Nath 6094 (RAW); D-4 Kuch, R. R. Stewart 548 (RAW); Ziarat, R.R. Stewart 28356 and 537 (RAW); Quetta valley, near water stream, Zaffar Ali 4739 (RAW); Sor range, Koneczny s.n. (KUH); between Ziarat and Quetta, gravel sandy clay, fls. dark pink above, light pink below, 13.4.70, Sultanul Abedin 4773 (KUH); 9 miles from Quetta on way to Urak, fls. purplish, Sultanul Abedin 4660 (KUH); Baghban, 15 miles from Khuzdar, Sultanul Abedin & Abrar 7168 (KUH); Ziarat, 2500 m., road side, fls. pinkish or violaceous, 25.6.57, Jafri & Akbar 2139 (KUH) ; F-5 Khairpur, weed in cult. field, 7.3.56, Jafri 1218 (KUH); G-5 Hyderabad, Asif s.n. (KUH); G-2 Dazin, palm garden, 1 mile from Trump on way to Mund, Sultanul Abedin 6226 (KUH); Panjgur, wheat field weed, fls. white outside and purplish inside, Sultanul Abedin & Abrar 6694 (KUH), and 6692 (mixed with Adonis aestivalis) (KUH); Panjgur, Sultanul Abedin 6695 (KUH); Rest House, Nag, fls. pinkish, Sultanul Abedin 6855 (KUH); G-4 Karachi, weed in fl. pots, Jafri s.n. (KUH); Karachi University Campus, Abrar Hussain s.n. (KUH); Darsano Chano, in banana garden, fis. white, Sultanul Abedin & Abdul Ghafoor 1342 (KUH); Jam Goath, Saida (KUH).

 

Export To PDF Export To Word
Small, delicate, much branched, leafy, diffuse herb, 5-25 (-40) cm long, glaucous, glabrous. Leaves (2-) 3-10 cm long, (1-) 2-5 cm broad, long-stalked to subsessile, much dissected, 2-3 -pinnatisect or decompound, with (2-) 3-5 pairs of lateral pinnae and a terminal one; pinnae long-petioluled to subsessile; 1-3 cm long, 0.5-2 (-2.5) cm broad, often ternately lobed with each lobe deeply, finely lobuled into linear ultimate segments (lobules) up to 5 (-8) mm long, 1 mm broad, flat to slightly channelled. Racemes shortly peduncled to subsessile, leaf-opposed, 6-12 (-15)-flowered, 10-20 mm long; bracts as long as or slightly longer than pedicels; linear, submembranous, whitish. Pedicel erect, 1.5-2 (-2.5) mm long, with midian ridge and somewhat expanded margins, slightly broader below the fruit or at its apex. Flowers 5-6 mm long, usually white or pale pinkish. Sepals minute, less than 1 mm long, 0.5 mm broad, sometimes obsolete or inconspicuous, laciniate-dentate, whitish, membranous. Upper petal with very short suborbicular, slightly oblong and obscurely downcurved spur, c. 1.5 mm long (or about ½ of the lamina of upper petal). Fruit c. 2 mm in diam., suborbicular, with usually rounded apex when mature (slightly or minutely apiculate when young), slightly or obscurely keeled (on the margins corresponding to pedicel margins), keel more distinct in slightly young fruits, somewhat rugose when dried and with 2 obscure apical pits, 1-seeded; seed 1-1.5 mm in diam., brownish.
 
 
 
© 2024 Missouri Botanical Garden - 4344 Shaw Boulevard - Saint Louis, Missouri 63110