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Descriptiones et Icones Plantarum Rariorum Hungariae 1: 66, pl. 65. 1802. ( Descr. Icon. Pl. Hung.) 
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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:
A. kohatica Klatt, Sitz. Ber. Math.-Phys. Cl. Acad. Wiss. Munchen 1878: 91. 1878; A. elegans Roxb., Hort. Beng. 61. 18; Fl. Ind. 3: 421. 1832.
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Flower/Fruit:
Fl. Per.: July-November.
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Type:
Type: Described from Hungary.
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Habitat:
A very common plant growing in sandy-clay soils of arid desert tracts and low hills in stony ground wastelands, field borders and roadsides from 400 msl to 2200 msl after rainfall in the late summer months.
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Distribution:
Distribution: C & E Europe, Iraq, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan (Balochistan, N. W. F. P., and Punjab), N. W. India, China, Mongolia, Russia.
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Comment/Acknowledgements:
Considered as a fodder for goats and a cure for pain in the ear. The smoke of twigs is considered good for burns and their infusion is given as a depurative.
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Map Location:
A-7 Gilgit, Astore, 4.8.1977, Azeem & Shehreel s. n. (RAW); Gilgit Expedition, S of Hindukush, Chaharkot, 5500 ft., a common plant on the dry waste ground, Dr Giles 540 (K); A-8 Chalt (Nagar State), c. 6000 ft., dry stony ground, Polunin 6465 (BM); Karakorum, around Skardu Air Port, 35° 17´.60 N, 75° 37´.0 E, 2500 m, 5.8.1955, S. Nakao s. n. (TI); Naltar Valley, 2400 m, 25.8.86, A. Rashid 1091 (PESH); B-6 Peshawar Dist.: Near Tangi, N. E. of Peshawar, edge of cult. field, B. L. Burtt 1044 (E); Malakand, Pir Baba Saheb, 13.9.1993, S. M. A. Kazmi 5166 (M); B-7 Swat Dist.: Kalam, 34° 19´0 N, 72° 32´.60 E, ±7000 ft., in stony soil, Muqarrab Shah, Javed Akhtar & Manzoor Hussain 154 (GH); Kalam, 34° 19´0 N, 72° 32´.60 E, near Rest House, 28.8.1971, S. M. A. Kazmi 3471 (M); Hazara Dist.: Kaghan, Mahandri, 5000ft., common, 8.7.1953, S. M. A. Kazmi s. n. (KUH); Murree, M. Afzal s. n. (NA); Topi Park, Rawalpindi, 33° 37´.0 N, 73° 1´.0 E, 1700 ft., R. R. Stewart 7728 (NA); 27 miles from Pir Baba on way to Saidu Sharif, gravel sandy-clay, Sultanul Abedin 8357 (KUH); B-8 Kashmir, Gurezo, Walter Koelz 9280 (NA); Skardu, 8000 ft., Webster & Nasir 6588 (BM); Balti, Environs of Skardu, 35° 17´.60 N, 75° 37´.0 E, 6-9000 ft., Schlagintweit cat. No. 791 (L); Kashmir, Baltistan, Indus Valley, near Skardu, 35° 17´.60 N, 75° 37´.0 E, ± 8000 ft.,17.7.1892, J. F. Duthie 12082 (O); Kashmir, Regio tempore, 5-7000 ft., T. Thomson s. n. (M); above Shigar, 35° 25.60´ N, 75° 43.60´ E, along stream, 8000 ft., Walter Koelz 9688 (NA); C-6 Kurram Valley, 1894, Harsukh 16364 (K); Hariab Dist.: 8-9000 ft., July 23rd, 1879, J. E. T. Aitchison 872 (K); Parachinar, August 1936, Vaid Prakash s. n. (RAW); C-7 Rawalpindi Dist.: Hassanabadal on G. T. Road, 30° 25.60´ N, 72° 42´.0 E, Aitchison 582 (K); National Park, Rawalpindi, 33° 37´.0 N, 73° 1´.0 E, ± 2200 ft., 12.12.1974, Iqbal Dar et al. s. n. (GH); JhelumDist.: c. 15 km from Chakwal, Bet. Chakwal and Choa Saidan Shah, c. 500 m, A. Ghafoor & Tahir Ali 4249 (KUH); C-8 Rawlakot, 33° 52´.0 N, 73° 46´.0 E, Poonch, 24.10.1952, A. Rashid Khan s. n. (MICH); D-4 Baloochistan, Quetta, Henna Valley, ± 7000 ft., July 1888, J. H. Lace s. n. (E); Hanna Lake, Quetta, heavily grazed perennial with faint smell, 21.10.1986, A. Ghafoor and S. Omer 2071 (KUH); Ziarat, V. K. Mall 16171 (RAW); Quetta, 5500 ft., Crookshank 553 (K); Wam Tangi, Nov. 14, 1889, J. H. Lace s. n. (E); Murdar Range, Quetta, common in dry rocky ravine, 6.9.1942, James Sinclair 2754 (E); F-4 Khuzdar Dist.: c. 30 km from Wadh on way to Bela, A. Ghafoor & S. Omer 2244 (KUH); Kalat Dist.: Surab, heavily grazed, A. Ghafoor & S. Omer 2212 (KUH).
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Biennial or perennial, basally woody herb with solitary or several, branched in upper part, 40-80 (-90) cm tall, ± patulous hairy to mostly glabrous, purplish-brown tinged stems from upright branched rootstock. Basal and lower stem leaves with 1.5 cm long petiole, densely patulous hairy to almost glabrous, lamina ovate-orbicular, 4-7 x 2.5-5 cm, 2 (-3)-pinnatisect into linear or linear-lanceolate, 3-4 x 0.5-1 mm, acute segments; middle and upper stem leaves subsessile to sessile, auriculate, hairy or usually glabrous; uppermost in the floral region acicular with auricles. Capitula heterogamous, numerous, shortly pedunculate, oblong-globose, c. 2 x 1.5 mm, nodding in narrow to broadly pyramidate, 20-50 x 10-35 cm panicle with horizontally or ± obliquely patent or occasionally ± erect, 8-30 cm long primary and 2-8 cm long secondary branches. Receptacle conical, glabrous. Involucre 3-4-seriate, phyllaries glabrous, imbricate, outermost ovate-orbicular, c. 0.8 mm long, narrowly scarious margined, inner ones oblong-ovate, c. 1.25 x 0.8 mm, broadly hyaline scarious. Florets 10-12, yellow; marginal florets 5-6, fertile, with c. 0.7 mm long, tubular, 2-dentate corolla; disc-florets 5-6, functionally staminate, with c. 1.25 mm long, tubular, 5-toothed, glandular corolla. Cypselas oblong-oval, c. 0.8 mm long, brown.
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