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(Last Modified On 5/13/2022)
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Acceptance
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Accepted
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(Last Modified On 8/22/2020)
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Contributor Text:
S. Abedin
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Contributor Institution:
Centre for Plant Conservation, University of Karachi – Pakistan
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Synonym Text:
Taraxacum sinense Dahlst., Acta Hort. Gothoburg. 2: 168. f. 9, t 3. f. 1-4. 1926. non Poir. 1813.; Taraxacum borealisinense Kitam., Acta Phytotax. Geobot. 31(13): 45. 1980. nom. illeg. (Taraxacum sinicum was considered as inappropriate).
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Flower/Fruit:
Fl. Per.: July-August
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Type:
Type: Shansi centr., Tai-yuan-fu, 800 m, Oct. 1924, H. Smith 7989 (lecto. fide Kirschner & Štěpánek, l.c. S; Isolecto. : W).
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Distribution:
Afghanistan, C. Asia, Russia, Mongolia, China and Pakistan – Kashmir (Ladakh).
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Comment/Acknowledgements:
Occurs between 2500-4300 m under trees shade, meadows in alkaline soils.
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Map Location:
B-9 Kashmir: Ladak: Daghoni to Sailing, 2400 m, 1.7.1955, E. Nasir & G. L. Webster 5922 (RAW); Kashmir: Ladak, Nubra Valley, Deshil, flowers yellow, 2970 m, 5.7.1929, Ludlow 524 (BM); ibid, Ladak, Shushal, under willows, flowers lemon-yellow, 4350 m, June 1950, R. Meinertzhagen s. n. (BM); ibid: Ladak, Bragnag, 1931, W. Koelz A-85 (KUH); ibid, Ladak, Sind Valley, in front of mud, in sand, flowers yellow, washed purplish outside, 4200 , 17.7.1931, W. Koelz, 2355 (RAW); ibid: Ladak, Shushal, alkali mud, flowers yellow, with strong purplish wash outside, 4260 m, 24.7.1931, W. Koelz 2430 (RAW); ibid, in mud crusted with alkali, 4260 m, 24.7.1931, R. R. Stewart 2430(KUH); ibid: Ladak, spitug/ spituk, in meadow, flowers yellow, outside, washed purplish, 3150 m, 21.8.1931, W. Koelz 2684 (KUH, RAW).
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Subglabrous herb, 5 – 40 cm tall. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 3 – 10 x 0.7 – 1.5 cm, glabrous, deeply lobed, lobes patent, entire, linear, 5-10 on each side, terminal lanceolate, acute; petioles narrow. Scapes 1-3, hairy above. Involucre 10 x 6 mm, somewhat turbinate, outer phyllaries appressed, imbricate, ovate, purple at the tip. Capitulum 1.5 – 2 cm across; ligules yellow with purplish stripes outsides. Anthers polliniferous, pollen irregular. Style and stigmas yellow. Cypselas greyish 3.5 4.4 mm long, spinulose above, gradually tapering into 1 mm long conical cone; beak 5 – 6.5 mm long; pappus 5 – 7 mm long, white to creamish.
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