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(Last Modified On 5/20/2022)
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Acceptance
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Accepted
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(Last Modified On 1/15/2021)
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Contributor Text:
Abdul Ghafoor
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Contributor Institution:
Centre for Plant Conservation, University of Karachi – PAKISTAN
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Synonym Text:
Centaurea depressa M. Bieb., Fl. Taur.-Cauc. 2: 346. 1808; DC., Prodr. 6: 578.1838; Boiss., l.c. 635; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 3: 385. 1881; Fiori, Icon. Fl. Ital. ed. 2: 457. Fig. 3648. 1921; Rech. f. in Symb. Afgh. 2: 183. 1950; Kitam., Fl. Afgh. 395. 1960; Vvedensky, Fl. Uzbek. 6: 398. 1962; Pavlov, Fl. Kazakh. 9: 390. Tab. 63, Fig. 4. 1966; R.R. Stewart, Ann. Cat. Vasc. Pl. W. Pak. & Kashm. 729. 1972; Wagenitz in P.H. Davis, Fl. Turk. 5: 580. Fig. 3.5-6. 1975; Bailey & Bailey, l.c. 1976; Wagenitz in Rech. f., Fl. Iran. Comp. III. Cynareae 139b: 416. 1980; Rasulov, Fl. Tadjik. 10: 259. 1991; Shen in Zhi, Fl. Xinjiang 5: 358. 1999; Czerpanov in Bobrov & Czerpanov, Fl. USSR 28: 412. 2001 (Engl. Trans.); Breckle et al. in Dittman, Vasc. Pl. Afgh. Augm. Checklist 154. 2013.
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Flower/Fruit:
Fl. Per.: May – June Vern.: Depressed Cornflower, Low Cornflower, Iranian Knapweed
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Type:
Type: Georgia, in collibus siccis Iberiae, circa Tiflis, Steven s. n. (LE).
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Distribution:
China (Tibet), India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzistan, S. E. Balkans, Ukraine and Crimea.
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Comment/Acknowledgements:
Grows in crop fields, waste ground among stones and pebbles.
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Map Location:
C-6 Kurram Valley, 6000 ft., Corn fields, May 1879, Major H. Collett 30 (K); D-4 Baloochistan, Quetta, 1851, J. E. Stocks s. n. (NY); Hanna‒Urak, 21.4.2017, Nazar Khan Mandokhail 03 (KUH); Ziarat, 12.5.78, c. 50 cm tall S. Nazimuddin, S. Abedin and Hamidullah 703 (KUH); Quetta, Between Bostan and Kanozai, 1600 m, Rechinger 29149 (W); Urak, Balochistan, 11.6.1965, M.A. Siddiqi & Y. Nasir 3499 (MICH, RAW); Beloochistan, Quetta, 1851, J.E. Stocks 1052 (K); Near Quetta, May 1953 (under auspices of Swiss Zoological Mission), Dr. F. Schmid s.n. (MICH); E-4 Nauskhi Dist.: Surkhab, Baluchistan, among stones, 21.5.1969, Zaffar Ali 5576 (K, RAW).
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Erect, (10-) 20 – 60 cm tall annual herb, usully branched from near the base with ascending shoots. Leaves ± densely to laxly grey floccose hairy; lower cauline leaves inconspicuously petiolate, oblanceolate or lanceolate, often somewhat lyrately lobed with large, oblong or lanceolate terminal lobe and 2 – 3 pairs of linear lateral lobes; median and upper cauline leaves sessile, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, longer than internodes, apically mucronulate.. Capitula solitary at tips of branches, ca 2 cm across. Involucre ovoid to campanulate, (13-) 14 – 18 (-20) mm long, 8 – 12 mm wide. Phyllaries multiseriate, espinose, green, glabrous, outer ovate, inner oblong, appendages scarious, silvery white to brown, decurrent, with 1.5 – 2 (-3) mm long teeth or lacerations. Florets usually violet blue or purplish-blue, marginal radiant, sterile, 2 – 2.5 cm long, with broader lanceolate, unequal-sized limb lobes; central violaceous, bisexual, 1.5 – 1.8 cm long. Cypselas pale-brown, oblong, (4.5-) 5 -5 (-6) mm long, hilum bearded to ca half the length of cypselas. Pappus 2-seriate, bristles of outer row (2-) 4 – 8 mm long, inner bristles scale-like, up to 2.5 mm long.
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