Home Flora of Pakistan
Home
Name Search
Families
Genera
Species
District Map
Grid Map
Inventory Project
Androsace umbellata (Lour.) Merr. 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
 

Published In: Philippine Journal of Science 15(3): 237–239. 1919[1920]. (Philipp. J. Sci.) Name publication detailView in BotanicusView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
Contributor Text: YASIN J. NASIR
Flower/Fruit: Fl. Per.: March-April.
Type: Holotype: Described from Cochin China (P, iso. K!).
Distribution: Distribution: Pakistan, Kashmir to Sikkim, India, Cochin China and Ryukyu Ils.
Comment/Acknowledgements: The only spring annual here of the plains and ascending to c. 1500 m. Usually found as an undergrowth in shady places or near streams, ditches or moist embankments.
Illustration: Androsace umbellata (Lour.) Merr. (Illustration)
Map Location: B-7 Hazara Dist.: Dadar, 4200', R.R. Stewart 28795 (RAW); lower Kaghan vy., in 1960, McVean s.n. (E); C-7 Rawalpindi Dist.: Karot, on bank of river Jhelum, c. 1900', M.A. Siddiqi & Y. Nasir 7404 (H); 7549 (RAW), p.p.; id., C.C. Townsend 338 (K); Sihala bridge, Y. Nasir 6330 (RAW); Rawalpindi-Chattar rd., c. 2000', R. R. Stewart 29034 (RAW); Broha rd., Chattar, Y. Nasir & R. Akhter 10718 (RAW); Kashmir: C-7 Miana, near Kotli, 4000', 22.4.1954, A. Rashid s.n. (RAW); id., R.R. Stewart 27335 (RAW, BM); Mandi, Poonch, R.R. Stewart 12073 (RAW); Poonch, 20.2.1953, Jan Mohd s.n. (RAW).

 

Export To PDF Export To Word
An annual 5-11 cm tall. Leaves basal, petiolate. Lamina 5-21 x 6-20 mm, cordate-reniform to suborbicular, subcrenate-dentate, pilose-pubescent. Petiole 2-3 times the lamina length, 10-25 (-30) mm long, pilose. Scapes 3-12 in. number, unequal, the largest up to 10 cm long, slender, glandular-pubescent; umbel 3-9-flowered. Bract 2-3 mm long, ovate or lanceolate-ovate, pilose. Pedicel 10-30 mm long, up to 38 mm in fruit, slender, glandular-pubescent. Flowers white. Calyx campanulate, 2/3 rd cleft, accrescent and stellate in fruit; lobes c. 3.5 mm long, unequal, elliptic-ovate, 3-nerved, pubescent. Corolla barely exceeding the calyx; limb 4-4.5 mm broad; lobes 2-2.5 mm long, oblong to obovate. Anthers less than 1 mm long. Ovary globose-depressed. Style less than 1 mm long. Capsule 3.5-3.7 mm broad, globose. Seeds 12-50, less than 1 mm long, angled, vesiculose, brown.
 
 
© 2024 Missouri Botanical Garden - 4344 Shaw Boulevard - Saint Louis, Missouri 63110