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Published In: Diagnoses Plantarum Orientalium Novarum, ser. 1 6: 85. 1845[1846]. (Jul 1846) (Diagn. Pl. Orient., ser. 1,) Name publication detail
 

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Synonym Text: A. gayana Boiss., Fl. Or. 3: 313. 1875; Burkill, l. c. 57; A. gayana Boiss. var. multiramosa Parsa in Kew Bull. 2: 200. 1948.
Flower/Fruit: Fl. Per.: April-May
Type: Holotype: Habitat in collibus et rupestribus Persiae australis circa Persepolin et prope Gere, Th. Kotschy 51 (G) Isotype (LE).
Habitat: Common in sandy-clay soil mixed with gravel and stones in shallow depressions near wadi edges or moist soil.
Distribution: Distribution: Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and UAE.
Comment/Acknowledgements: Sometimes divided in two varieties on the basis of the thickness of fruiting peduncle, but the variation seems to be more or less continuous. The leaves are eaten raw to cure pain in the chest.
Map Location: D-4 Quetta Dist.: Bolan Pass, Between Spezand and Mach, A. Ghafoor & Rizwan Yousuf 1091 (KUH); Quetta, Chiltan Mts., 30° 11.60´ N, 67° 0.0´ E, Oct. 1952, S. M. H. Jafri 493 (KUH); Hanna Lake, 30° 15.0´ N, 67° 9.0´ E, 4.5.1963, M. A. Siddiqui 1772 (RAW); Wali Tangi, A. Ghafoor & Rizwan Yousuf 1182 & 1484 (RAW); Urak, 7000 ft., J. H. Lace 3336 (K); Brori Hills, S. Abedin 4902, 4905 (KUH); 17 miles from Quetta on way to Naushki, S. Abedin 4967 (KUH); Hanna Lake, 6000 ft., R. R. Stewart 28273 (RAW); Quetta, Brewery, fissures in limestone rocks, 5700 ft., H. Crookshank 6 (K); Quetta Valley, ± 5000 ft., in stones, fls. White, Zaffar Ali 4820 (RAW); Urak, R. R. Stewart 28274 (RAW); Baluchistan, without exact locality, W. A. Dick-Peddie 3 (RAW); Ibid, Stocks 835 (K); Chilten, Griffith s.n. (K); Quettah (Quetta) base of mountain, Griffith 420 (K).

 

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A small annual, up to 25 cm tall, appressed grayish hairy herb with suberect branches. Leaves cauline, shortly petiolate, lamina ovate, 15 – 20 x 6 – 10 mm, 1-2-pinnatisect into 2-3 mm long, acute ultimate segments. Peduncles filiform, 8 – 10 cm long, slightly thickened upwards in fruit. Capitula radiate, 10 – 12 mm across. Phyllaries oblong, 2 – 3 x c. 1 mm, appressed hairy outside, broadly membranous-margined, obtuse, deciduous. Receptacle conical, c. 2 mm long, chaffy in the upper half, paleae subulate, 2.5 – 3 x 0.5 mm, hyaline, deciduous. Ray-florets 5 – 6, female, fertile, ligules white, elliptic, 4 – 5 x 3 – 4 mm, tridentate at the apices. Disc-florets yellow, c. 2 mm long, corolla tube terete, ± inflated in the fruit. Cypselas cylindrical, 2.5 – 3 mm long, ± curved, 10-15-ribbed, outer tuberculate-muricate, deciduous, with a 10-15-dentate rim, the inner ones with a unilateral, oblique, ± lacerate auricle.
 
 
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