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Published In: Trudy Botanicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk S S S R. Ser. 1, Flora i Sistematika Vysshikh Rastenii. Moscow & Leningrad 7: 10, in clavi,. 1948. (Trudy Bot. Inst. Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Ser. 1, Fl. Sist. Vyssh. Rast.) Name publication detail
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 5/7/2022)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 1/16/2022)
Contributor Text: Roohi Abid, M. Qaiser & Rubina Abid
Contributor Institution:

Centre for Plant Conservation, University of Karachi – Pakistan

and

Department of Botany, ‎University of Karachi, Karachi

Synonym Text:

Erigeron discernendus Rech. f., Dan. Biol. Skr. 8, 2: 6. Fig. 1 & 8a. 1955.

Flower/Fruit:

Fl. Per.: June – August

Type:

Type: (Pamir–Alai) Montes Seravschan (LE).

Distribution:

Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia (Pamir Alai mountain ranges)

Comment/Acknowledgements:

This Central Asian element is rare in our area, usually grows at higher altitudes between 3000 – 3500 m above sea level on grassy slopes, on wet and moist soil.

Map Location:

A–8 Gilgit Distt.: Bullolo, Karimabad, Hunza, erect, perennial herb up to ± 6" tall, outer florets pink; inner yellow, grows on moist grassy steep slopes, ± 3200 m, common, 16.8.2003, Jan Alam & Naik Alam 2664 a &b (KUH); Nagar, Gilgit, Harachi Bowy Sikandarabad, on wet and moist soil, perennial herb, erect form with blue & yellow flowers, 29.7.2005, Sajjad Haider 395 (KUH); B–7 Hazara Distt.: Dunga Gali, Hazara, 9200 ft., 11.6.1896, Inayat 19726 (K).


 

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Perennial, caespitose, herbs, usually darkened in dry condition. Stem 20–40 (–55) cm tall, leafy, corymbosely branched in the upper half, branches few, 1.5–2.5 cm long, laxly  crisped  hairy  or  glabrescent.  Leaves  thick,  herbaceous – membranaceous, sparsely crisped hairy – pilose. Basal leaves oblong–lanceolate or somewhat oblanceolate, 3–8 cm long (including 1 cm long petiole), 5–8 mm wide, entire, acute–subobtuse, cauline leaves narrowly oblong or linear–lanceolate, 2–3 cm long, 3–5 mm wide, subsessile – sessile, acute, somewhat appressed to the stem, uppermost gradually smaller and narrower, but similar to lower cauline leaves. Capitula solitary, in corymbiform synflorescence, (1.5–) 2–2.5 cm across. Involucre 1–1.5 cm in diameter, subglobose, covered with long crisped hairs – somewhat villous at the base, intermixed with glands. Phyllaries 2–seriate, almost equal, outer phyllaries 5–6 mm long, 1.5–2 mm wide, lanceolate, acute, inner ones 7–8 mm long, 1–1.2 mm wide, linear–lanceolate, acuminate, membranous, green–dark purplish. Ray florets white–pale, rosy–violet, 7–9 mm long, corolla tube 3–4 mm long, almost equalling to ligule. Female eligulate florets absent. Disc florets yellow, 4.5– 5 mm long, tube 1–1.5 mm long, limb 3.5–4 mm long including ca 0.5 mm long lobes. Cypselas 3–4 mm long, 1–2 mm wide, oblong, brown, densely appressed sericeous. Outer bristles of pappus ca < 0.5 mm long, inner ones 6–7.5 mm long, brownish, scabrid–barbellate.

 
 
 
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