Published In:
Phytographia seu Descriptio Rariorum Minus Cognitarum Plantarum 11, n. 39. 1794. ( Phytographia) 
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(Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
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Acceptance
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Accepted
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(Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
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Synonym Text:
Artemisia tournefortiana Reichb., Icon. Bot. Exot. 1: 6, t. 5. 1824; DC., Prodr. 6: 119. 1837; Boiss., Fl. Or. 3: 372. 1875; C. B. Clarke, Comp. Ind. 163. 1876; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 3: 324. 1881; Burkill, Work. List Fl. Pl. Bal. 54. 1901; Pamp. in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. n. s. 34: 705. 1927; ibid, 46: 585. 1939; Rech. f., Symb. Afghan. 2: 56. 1955; Kitam., Fl. Afghan. 389. 1960; Poljakov in Schischk. & Bobrov, Fl. USSR 26: 488. 1961; R. R. Stewart, l. c. 720; Cullen in P. H . Davis, Fl. Turk. 5: 317. fig. 15.13. 1975; Tsiang & Li, Icon. Corm. Sin. 4: 531. fig. 6476. 1975; B. D. Naithiani in Hajara et al., l.c. 45.
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Flower/Fruit:
Fl. Per.: July-September.
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Type:
Type: B-Willd. (Exact type locality is not known but erroneously attributed to New Zealand).
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Habitat:
Common in subalipine regions of Hindukush and N.W. Himalayas in Indo-Pakistan subcontinent from 2-3000 m in sandy-clay soils along field borders and cultivated fields as a weed.
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Distribution:
Distribution: Turkey, USSR, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, China and N. America.
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Comment/Acknowledgements:
This species can easily be distinguished by its Amaranthus like inflorescence.
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Map Location:
A-7 Chitral, Shogot, Lutko valley, NW of Chitral, 6500 ft., on dry stony ground, infl. reddish-brown, J. D. A. Stainton 3257 (E); c. 9 miles from Nishkoh on way to Tirich Mir, between Tirich Mir and Parsing, growing in cult. field, 19.8.1981, Kamal A. Malik & S. Nazimuddin 1597 (KUH); A-8 Gilgit, Pakora Lake, Astore, S. Omer & M. Qaiser 2474 (KUH); Naltar Valley, 23.8.1986, A. Rashid 1058, 1059 (PESH); Gilgit, 1885, Dr G. M. Giles s. n. (CAL); Karakorum, Nagar village area, 7800 ft., grassy banks by irrigation channels, cult. Area, 29.8.1960, O. Polunin 6412 (BM, E); A-9 Baltistan, stream border, 28.8.1960, Tarkalung, c. 10,000 ft., Sept. 5, 1936, Walter Koelz 9822 (NA); Skardo, alt. 6500 ft., field weed, August 16, 1936, W. Koletz 9630 (NA); NW Himalayas, Kinden, Sept. 1864, 8000 ft., Dr Brandis s. n. (CAL); B-7 Swat Dist.: Between villages Bahar and Shangla, near top scene, c. 2200 m, 6.10.1988, A. Ghafoor & Tahir Ali 4045 (KUH); B-8 Srinagar, Kashmir, 5500 ft., Garden weed, Sept. 7, 1920, R. R. & I. D. Stewart 6002 (PH); Badrawar, Kashmir, 22 Sept. 1876, C. B. Clarke 31488 (BM); Nowbag, Kashmir, 13 Sept. 1876, Clarke 31236 (BM); Sind Valley, Buhama, 1850 m, on mud walls, 25.9.1981, Gh. Hussain Dar 3222 (KUH); Drained lake basin of Kashmir, environs of Srinagar, within a circle of 8 miles radius, 2-20 Oct. 1856, Schlagintweit 4481 (M); Kashmir, March 1838, Falconer 569 (K); C-6 Kurram, Harsukh 15363 (K); Kurram Valley, common in Hariab and Shalizan, J. E. T. Aitchison 984 (K); C- 7 Rawalpindi Dist.: Murree Hills, Changla Gali, 30.6.1934, Mohinder Nath 527 (KUH); Ibid, 8000 ft., Sept. 1952, Irshad 12 (RAW, MICH); N.W. F. P., Mt. Ilam, ± cult. field, 12.8.52, R. R. Stewart 24335 (RAW); 9 miles from Nathiagali on way to Abbotabad, erect, c. 45 cm tall, S. A. Farooqui & M. Qaiser 3484 (KUH); D-4 Baluchistan, Ziarat, 8000 ft., common, H. Crookshank 427 (K); Ziarat, 10.9.1887, 8000 ft., J. H. Lace 4058 (E); Ibid, sandy-loam soil, M. Qaiser 109 (KUH); Ibid, near Governor House, S. A. Farooqui & M. Qaiser 2382 & 2383 (KUH); Quetta, Wali Tangi, S. Khatoon et al 484 (KUH); E-4 Kalat Dist.: Khad Koocha, between Mastung and Manguchar, fields near RCD Highway, A. Ghafoor & S. Omer 2140 (KUH).
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An annual or biennial glabrous, non-aromatic herb with up to 1.8 (-2.5) m tall, erect, striate, unbranched, pale-green or purple tinged stem. Rootstock vertical, 8 – 10 cm long, c. 10 – 15 mm thick. Basal leaves with 3 – 6 cm long petioles; lamina oblong-ovate to elliptic, 6 – 15 x 4 – 8 (-10) cm, 2 (-3)-pinnatisect, rachis sparsely lobulate, primary segments remote, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, 2 – 5 x 0.8 – 2.4 cm, acute, secondary segments 6 – 15 x 4 – 8 mm, very narrowly elliptic, serrate to ± pinnatifid, median and upper leaves gradually smaller, subsessile to sessile, uppermost in floral region pinnatifid or lanceolate and entire. Capitula heterogamous, numerous, erect, hemispherical-oblong, 2.5 – 3 x c. 2 mm, almost sessile, congested in oblong, 30 – 70 x 1.5 – 5 cm, strict, contracted panicle with ascending to erect-appressed spicate branches. Involucre 3-seriate, phyllaries glabrous, outermost oblong, c. 1.5 mm long, inner ones subequal, 2 – 2.75 x 1 – 1.5 mm, widely scarious on both sides of green midrib, obtuse. Receptacle conical, c. 1 mm long, glabrous. Florets numerous, all fertile, greenish-yellow; marginal florets 10-25 (-30), with c. 1 mm long, glandular, 2-toothed corolla; disc-florets 9-35 (-40), bisexual, with c. 1.25 mm long, ± clavate-tubular, basally glandulose, 5-toothed corolla. Cypselas oblong-oblanceolate, 0.8 – 1 mm long, finely striate, brown.
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