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Published In: Botanicheskie Materialy Gerbariia Botanicheskogo Instituta imeni V. L. Komarova Akademii Nauk SSSR 17: 428. 1955. (Bot. Mater. Gerb. Bot. Inst. Komarova Akad. Nauk SSSR) Name publication detail
 

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Synonym Text: Tanacetum fruticulosum Lebeb., Icon. Pl. Fl. Ross. 1: 10, tab. 38. 1829; Podlech in Rech. f., Fl. Iran. Comp. IV. 158: 126. t. 119. 1986; Artemisia athanasia Besser in Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 7: 24. 1834; Pyrethrum athanasia (Besser) Boiss., Fl. Or. 3: 353. 1875; Tanacetum gracile Hook. f. & Thomson in Hook.f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 3: 318. 1881; R.R.Stewart, Ann. Cat. Vasc. Pl. W. Pak. & Kashm. 787. 1972; Chrysanthemum gracile (Hook. f. & Thomson) B. Fedtsch., Rast. Turkest. 737. 1915 non Masf.; Ajania gracilis (Hook. f. & Thomson) Poljakov in Schischk. & Bobrov, Fl. USSR 26: 385. 2000. (Engl. transl.).
Flower/Fruit: Fl. Per.: October-November.
Type: Type: Inter fl. Irtysch et Kara Karala, C. F. von Ledebour s.n. (LE).
Habitat: Frequent in narrow to wide slightly moist gorges in sandy gravel dry arid regions in Northern and Central Baluchistan.
Distribution: Distribution: Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, Russia (Siberia), Central Asia, Mongolia, Xizang, Himalayas and Karakorum mountains.
Map Location: A-8 Borit Jil, Hunza valley, Karakorum Mountains, 2500 m, Perott 5,12 (K); B-8 Balti, Pashkyum valley near Dras, 22.9.1848, T. Thomson s.n. (K); Kargil, Ladakh road, 23.9.1848, T. Thomson s.n. (K); Dras, between Srinagar and Kargil, alpine steppe, Leonard 6777 (K); Mushkin Forest, Astor Valley 27.7.1892, Duthie s.n. (K); Gilgit expeditions, Garkuch, 7000 ft, Giles 503 (K); D-4 Sibbi Dist.: Ziarat, 2550 m, Lace 4054 (E); D-5 Zhob Dist.: Zhob Valley, Peters s. n.; Zandra, Baluchistan, Nov. 1952, S. M. H. Jafri 696 (KUH !); E-4 Kalat Dist.: Koh-e-Maran, c. 10 Km east of Manguchar, Kalat, common in ravine, cushion-like shrublet, 23.10.1986, A. Ghafoor & S. Omer 2164 (KUH); c. 5 Km from Kalat on road to Surab, 24.10.1986, A. Ghafoor & S. Omer 2194 (KUH).

 

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Appressed grayish hairy, woody shrublet, with numerous, upright to suberect, up to 45 cm tall shoots from the suffrutescent, vertical, branched, c. 1 cm thick rootstock. Leaves densely appressed hairy and punctate glandulose; lower stem leaves petiolate to subsessile, 2 – 3 cm long, 1.5 – 2 cm broad, ± tripartite, primary segments irregularly palmatifid to pinnatifid into lanceolate, obtuse ultimate segments; upper leaves less dissected, uppermost lanceolate and entire. Capitula bracteate, heterogamous, 4 – 5 mm across, shortly peduncled, congested in corymbs at the terminii of shoots. Involucre cylindrical to ± hemispherical, phyllaries pubescent, outer narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, narrowly hyaline-scarious at apices, inner ones oblong-ovate, with broadly hyaline to light brown scarious apices. Receptacle hemispherical. Marginal flowers female, with narrow, c. 1 mm long, 2-3-dentate corolla tube. Disc-florets bisexual, with narrowly tubular, c. 2 mm long, 4-toothed corolla tube. Cypselas oblong, 1.2 – 1.5 mm long, angular.
 
 
 
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