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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
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A. vulgaris non L.: sensu Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 3: 325. 1881 pro parte; A. nuristanica Kitam., Fl. Afghan. 388. fig. 94. 1960.
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Flower/Fruit
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Fl. Per.: July-August.
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Type
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Type: Kashmir, alt. 1825-2135 m, T. Thomson s.n. (K!).
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Habitat
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Common between 1500 and 3000 m. along field borders in silty-clay moist or wet soils.
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Distribution
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Distribution: N. W. Himalayas, Hindu Kush (Pakistan, Kashmir, N E Afghanistan) and India (Himachal Pradesh).
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Map Location
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A-6 Chitral, Mirga, ± 8000 ft., 2.9.1985, Gatacre 17277 (O); B-6 Dir Dist.: Near Gujar, 30.8.1962, Stewart, Nasir & Siddiqui 1296 (RAW); Dir to Gujrat, 15.7.1956, A. R. Beg 1327 (RAW); Lower Gujar Killi, Lowari Pass, c. 7000 ft., 21.7.1976, M. Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 6540 (KUH); B-7 Swat Dist.: Jhamra, 23.8.1962, Nasir & Siddiqui 1086 (RAW); Shangla Hills, Swat, 20.8.1972, ± 5000 ft., M. Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 4743 (KUH); Hazara Dist.: Thandiani, ± 8000 ft., 20.8.1956, R. R. Stewart 27730 (BM, RAW); Hazara Dist.: Shogran, 9.8.58, S. M. A. Kazmi 822 (M); B-8 Kashmir, Pahlgam, 34° 1.60´ N, 75° 19.60´ E, 7500 ft., July 28, 1920, R. R. & I. D. Stewart 5460 (K); Kashmir, Chorban, 8000 ft., open, along stream, 3.8.1936, Walter Koelz 9307 (NA); B-9 Kashmir, Near Kajbhan, 8-9000 ft., 10.9.1892, Duthie s. n. (O); C-7 Abbotabad Dist.: Dunga Gali, 8-8500 ft., 8.7.1957, R. R. Stewart 28769 (E!, RAW); Dunga Gali, near top of Mokshpuri, ± 9000 ft., July 22, 1978, Henry Woolsey 155 PK’ 78 (RAW); C-8 Kashmir, Gandarbal, along fields, 22.8.1981, 1650 m, G. Hussain Dar 2836 (KUH); C-9 Kashmir, Fras Nag to Tsrar Sharif, field borders, 7-8000 ft., R. R. Stewart 23257 (RAW).
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Perennial, with solitary, erect, 60-125 cm tall, sparsely appressed-puberulous to nearly glabrous, branched above, angular-ridged stems from prostrate, ± woody, c. 1 cm thick rootstock. Leaves shortly petiolate to almost sessile, oblong to broadly ovate, 7-12 x 5-7 cm, green above with T-shaped sparse hairs, densely to sparsely greyish-green arachnoid pubescent beneath, bipinnatisect, primary segments 7-9, lanceolate or broadly lanceolate, 4-6 x 2-3.5 cm, sharp acute, secondary segments lanceolate, 1.5-2.5 cm x 4-6 mm, acute, entire or shallowly incised, mucronate; uppermost leaves in floral region undivided, very narrowly elliptic. Capitula numerous, heterogamous, shortly pedunculate to sessile, ovate, 2.5-3 x c. 2.5 mm, ± remote to approximate near branch apices, in a narrow to broad, 10-25 x 5-10 cm panicle with obliquely patent to ascending, up to 25 cm long branches. Involucre 3-4-seriate, phyllaries laxly imbricate, almost glabrous, all braodly membranous on margins and apices, outermost triangular-ovate, green in midrib region, c. 2 x 1.5 mm, ± acute, inner 2 series elliptic-ovate, 2.5-3 x 1.5-1.75 mm, obtuse, hyaline scarious. Receptacle glabrous, hemispherical. Florets 16-20, yellow, all fertile; marginal florets 6-8, with ± 1 mm long, narrow, 2-toothed, glandulose corolla tube and long exserted style branches; disc-florets 10-12, with c. 1.75 mm long, 5-toothed, reddish-tinged glandulose corolla tube. Cypselas brown, c. 1 mm long.
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