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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 8/16/2020)
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Contributor Text:
Sultanul Abedin
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Contributor Institution:
Centre for Plant Conservation, University of Karachi – Pakistan
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Flower/Fruit:
Fl. Per.: June – August
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Type:
Lectotype: [the Caucasus] In pratis montiam altiorum Karab, Orient, 1829, Szovits 633 (LE).
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Distribution:
Iran, C. Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.
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Comment/Acknowledgements:
Note: The name Taraxacum stenolepium is usually referred to the tetraploid sexual complex that are centered in the Transcaucasus and E. & C. Anatolia. The plants reported from Pakistan under this name are similar to this group but require further examination.
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Map Location:
A-7 Gilgit Dist.: Harmosh, Tatarkachi/Raijuth, Khaltarow, 5-20 cm tall herb, heads yellow, 3500-3700 m, 3.8.2003, S. W. Khan & Shabbir 491-498 (KUH); A-8 Hunza, Ghaimash, Karimabad, erect, perennial herb, up to 15 cm tall, heads yellow, fairly common, 2400 m, 8.7.2001, J. Alam & N. Alam 34 (KUH); Hunza, Shishpur nala, above Hassanabad, erect perennial herb, outer florets golden yellow, inner florets orangish-yellow, 3500 m, 28.6.2002, J. Alam & M. S. Islam 266 (KUH); Hunza, Khattar, Shishpur, above Hasanabad, 15 cm tall, semierect perennial herb, heads golden yellow, fairly common, 2800 m, 29.6.2002, J. Alam & M. S. Islam 334 (KUH); Hunza, Hone mountain, 18 cm tall, semirect herb, heads yellow, fairly common 3700 m, 30.7.2002, J. Alam 428 (KUH); upper Hunza, Misgar, growing along canal, 8 cm tall semierect herb, heads yellow, fairly common, 2700 m, 17.7.2002, J. Alam & A. Aziz 1302 (KUH); Hunza, Bullalo, above Karimabad, growing on slope, 37 cm tall, erect herb, heads golden yellow, infrequent, 3400 m, 16.8.2003, J. Alam & N. Alam 2080 (KUH); B-6 Swat Dist.: Tubandban Jabba, upper Swat, 2400 m, 19.7.1963, E. Nasir & M. A. Siddiqui 2344 (RAW); 2351 (BM) Hazara Dist.: Saiful Maluk, 26.7.1954, Ch. S. Ali (now called S. A. Chaudhary) 149 (RAW); B-7 Swat Dist.: Sho Nala, Swat, 3300 m, 22.8.1955, A. Rahman Beg 35 (RAW), B-8 Gilgit Dist.: Rama Valley, S. W. of Astor, 5-8 cm tall erect herb, heads yellow, 2-3 cm across, 3600 m, 5.8.1967, T. E. Lankester & T. A. S. Pearson TEL 1415 (BM); Kashmir: Zanskar Dist.: Penese La, fine sandy, dusty roadside, scattered with loose rock clippings, rare, c. 4000 m, 30.7.1981, M. Grace, E. Bailey, D. Bull & S. Carr 207 (K); B-9 Skardu Dist.: Thale Lato Bagmaharal, E of Skardo and Shigar, 30.8.1856, Schlagintweit 5963 (BM); Karakorum, 4350 m, 8.8.1876, C. B. Clarke 30196 (BM); ibid.: Kero Lugma Glacier, left bank, closely vegetated areas, 4350 m, 24.7.1939, R. Scott Russell 1258 (BM); ibid: Makarum, Hisper Glacier, moist flat, 3750 m, 1.8.1939, R. Scott Russell 1403 (BM); ibid. Solu Glacier, right bank, ablation valley, 3450 m, 26.8.1939, R. Scott Russell 1732 (BM); Skardu Dist.: Deosai Plateau, Burzil Chowki, 3300 m, 26.7.1940, R. R. Stewart 19770 (RAW); Karakorum: Yengutsa Glacier, S of Hispar village, grassy place, heads yellow, 3900 m, 23.8.1960, O. Polunin 6378 (BM); Deosai Plateau: Burjila, 12 cm tall herb, grassy place, not common, 3450 m, 19.8.2002, J. Alam 1520 (KUH); ibid, top of black hole, moist shady place, 7 cm tall herb, heads yellow, c. 4250 m, 19.8.2002, J. Alam 1501 (KUH); ibid. Black hole, 15 cm tall erect herb, not common, 4200 m, 19.8.2002, J. Alam 1517 (KUH); Astor Dist.: Deosi, 6.8.1955, E. Nasir & G. L. Webster 6378 (KUH); C-9 Kashmir: Kamri Pass, 3600 m, 18.8.1939, R. R. Stewart 18711 (RAW).
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A small slender, 5 – 25 cm tall, perennial herb. Leaves very variable, entire to toothed to pinnatipartite, 5 – 20 x 0.5 – 2 cm, linear, lanceolate or oblanceolate, glabrous, obtuse, subobtuse to acute, lobes usually entire; petiole long or rarely small, pinkish, widely winged at base. Scapes few, hairy above. Capitula 2 – 2.5 cm across. Involucre 9 – 15 x 9 – 12 mm, dark green; outer phyllaries linear to linear-lanceolate, marginate, with or without cornicle; inner ones linear, with or without cornicle. Ligules yellowish to yellow; peripheral ones with dark stripes outside. Anthers polliniferous, rarely absent. Styles and stigmas drying black, rarely yellow. Cypselas brownish to stramineous, 4 – 5 mm long with few spinules above; cone gradually formed, 0.4 – 1 mm long, conical; beak 4 – 7 mm long; pappus 5 – 6 mm long, white with brownish tinge.
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