Published In:
Species Plantarum 2: 804–805. 1753. (1 May 1753) ( Sp. Pl.)   
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(Last Modified On 5/12/2022)
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Acceptance
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Accepted
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(Last Modified On 9/11/2020)
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Contributor Text:
Alexander Sennikov & Abdul Ghafoor
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Contributor Institution:
Botanical Museum, Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki. Centre for Plant Conservation, University of Karachi – Pakistan
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Synonym Text:
H. umbellatum var. lanceolatum Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 3: 400. 1881; H. sinense Vaniot in Bull. Acad. Geogr. Bot. 12: 502. 1903; H. umbellatum ssp. mongolicum Fries in Uppsala Univ. Årsskr. 1862: 136. 1862; H. umbellatum var. mongolicum (Fr.) Zahn in Engler, Pflanzenr. 79: 915. 1922; H. umbellatum f. scabrum Kom. in Act. Hort. Petrop. 25: 791. 1907; H. sherwalii S.Abedin & Zamarrud in Pak. J. Bot. 40(1): 5. Fig. 1a-c. 2008; H. umbellatum var. rigidum auct. non (Hartm.) sensu Clarke, Comp. Ind. 258. 1876.
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Flower/Fruit:
Fl. Per.: June-September Engl. Vern.: Narrow Leaf Hawksweed
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Type:
Lectotype: ”In montibus Misniae [Meisen] et in Dania,” Herb. Burser VI: 96 (UPS) (designated by Sennikov in Nord. J. Bot. 25: 99–103. 2007)
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Distribution:
Widespread in Europe, South West Asia, Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, India, China, Mongolia, Japan and N. America.
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Comment/Acknowledgements:
Commonly found growing in moist rocky crevices, moist stony slopes, near and in cultivated fields as weed and also forest borders and in grassy ± plain areas.
Hieracium sherwalii was described from a single locality in Gilgit. This plant, reportedly common on alpine meadows, was said to differ in its tufted habit and bulbous-based hairs on the stem base and leaves. The leaves were described as entire and amplexicaul. These characters indicate that this taxon simply represents a regenerated form of H. umbellatum that appear after grazing in the subalpine zone. The bulbous-based hairs can sometimes be found as modification in various groups of Hieracium.
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Map Location:
A-8 Gilgit Dist.: Hunza, Hone mt. above Karimabad, grows in rocky crevice, 1 m tall, erect, perennial herb, heads yellow, infrequent, 3000 m, 9.7.2002, Jan Alam & Nazeer Alam 790-A, 790-B (KUH); Gilgit, Hoper Vy., Nagar, growing on moist stony slope, 80 cm tall, erect, perennial herb, heads yellow, 2700 m, 27.7.2004, J. Alam & Sher Sultan Baig 1993-D (KUH); Haramosh, Kheyeh, on way to Darson, Khaltarow, 3000 m, moist cultivated fields, common, 27.7.2007, Sher Wali Khan 861 (KUH 84884); Harmosh, (Gilgit) Ichman Khaltarow, 3000 m, open grassy slopes, 21.8.2004, Sher Wali Khan & Shabbir Hussain 684 (KUH 83778); Gilgit Dist., Harmosh, Khun Plateau, Khaltarow, open meadows, 30 cm tall, perennial, erect herb, flowers deep yellow, latex present, very common in grass land, ± 3500 m, 30.7.2007, Sher Wali Khan & Shabbir Hasan 934 (KUH) (holotype of H. sherwalii); B-7 Hazara Dist.: Kagan (Kaghan) Valley, undated, Inayat 19869 (KUH 48526); Baltistan (N Area), Satpara Nullah, Skardu, grassy place, 2700 m, fairly common, 02.07.2003, Jan Alam 2003b (KUH 85870); B-8 Kashmir, Sonamarg, ± 10000 ft., July 1928, R. R. Stewart 13498 (K); Ibid., 9–10000 ft., August 23, 1922, R. R. Stewart 6780 (K); Rama, above Astore, 10,000 ft., top of boulder, 25.7.1946, R. R. Stewart 22910 (K); Pahalgam, Kashmir, 7200 ft., field weed, 2.9.1931, R. R. Stewart 12390 (MO 1048033, KUH); Kashmir, Reg. Temp. 7–10000 ft., 27.9.1948, T. T. s.n (K).
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Erect, perennial, up to 1.2 (–1.5) m tall, erosulate, ± woody herbs with solitary to few, basally purplish or pale-purplish, evenly foliaceous, apically branched stems. Branches simple, eglandular and minutely stellate, glabrescent to scabrid because of simple hairs. Leaves all cauline, basal absent at anthesis, extremely variable in width, linear to oblong or oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, or broadly ovate, 2–8 × 1–1.5 cm, with or without stellate pubescence above, with few to numerous simple hairs and abundant stellate pubescence beneath, basally attenuate or cuneate (subrotund in depauperate forms), entire to remotely dentate, acute-acuminate to ± subobtuse. Capitula medium-sized, on slender, 2–5 cm long, peduncles densely covered with stellate hairs, organised in large, robust, dense umbellate panicles. Involucre ovate-globose, 8–11 × 5–7 mm. Phyllaries mostly pale-green, lax, glabrous or with sparse stellate hairs, sometimes with a few short glandular hairs along the median line, broadly linear-lanceolate, outer ones 4–6 × 1–1.5 mm, with recurved (rarely straight) apices. Ligules golden yellow, sometimes yellowish-white, glabrous. Cypselas reddish to blackish-brown, c. 3 mm long, ribbed. Pappus 5–8 mm long, creamish.
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