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(Last Modified On 5/16/2022)
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Acceptance
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Accepted
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(Last Modified On 12/7/2020)
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Contributor Text:
Abdul Ghafoor, M. Qaiser & Roohi Abid
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Contributor Institution:
Centre for Plant Conservation, University of Karachi – PAKISTAN
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Flower/Fruit:
Fl. Per.: May-July Vern.: Narian band, Gorai, Gúrau
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Type:
Type: Pakistan: Baluchistan, 1851, J.E. Stocks 930 (G-Boiss.)
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Distribution:
Pakistan (Balochistan), Afghanistan and Iran.
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Comment/Acknowledgements:
Horses, camels, goat and sheep graze this species and it is considered a good fodder.
Commonly grows on rocks and dry river beds along water channels, near receding ponds, from 700 m to 1900 m.
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Map Location:
D-4 Quetta Dist.: Between Beleli and Ghazaband, ca 20 Km N. of Quetta, soil sandy-clay with gravel, small spinescent shrub, Fls. Creamy-whitish, 5.5.85, Abdul Ghafoor & Rizwan Hashmi 1315 (KUH); Between Qila Abdullah and Sheila Bagh, 1600 – 1900 m, K.H. Rechinger 29012 (W); About 18 miles from Chaman on way to Quetta, soil sandy loam, spiny shrub, 30 cm tall,7.6.70, M. Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 1282 (KUH); Hazargangi National Park, Bunap-Daghari Mountain, 22.6.1997, Rubina Rafiq & Sikandar Hayat HG-97-419 (RAW); Quetta, Hanna Lake, Quetta, heads creamish, 28.5.1995, Tahir Ali & G.R.Sarwar 2582 (KUH); Hanna Lake, near Quetta, ca 25 – 30 cm, greenish buds, 7.5.84, Saood Omer 1284 (KUH); Hanna Lake, Quetta, bushy, 60 – 70 cm tall, soil rocky-stony, 25.6.76, Nazir & Iqbal Dar 304 (KUH); ca 67 Km from Quetta on way to Muslim Bagh, in dry river bed, perennial, erect, c. 20 cm tall, heads whitish, 30.5.1995, Tahir Ali& G. R. Sarwar 2661(KUH); Quetta, Hanna Lake, Perennial, erect herb, ca 40 cm tall, heads creamish, 28.5.1995, Tahir Ali & G.R.Sarwar 2582 (KUH): 29 miles from Quetta, growing on sandy-gravel hill, 11.5.78, S. Nazimuddin & S. Abedin 588 (KUH); Pishin, Qila Abdullah, 26.6. 1982, Tony Archer s.n. (RAW); Between Murgha and Hindu Bagh, 1650 m, Harsukh 18906 (RAW); Quetta Vy. To Hanna, ±5000 ft., 23.5. 68, Zaffar Ali 4735 (RAW); Quetta, ± 5000 ft., 19.5.69, Zaffar Ali 5589 (RAW); Brewery, Quetta, 21.4. 1954, Asghar Ali 93 (RAW); Anjeeri & Malthooz, Maslakh Range, 14.5.87, Atiya Azim 20 (RAW); Maslakh Range, Naraband, 1500 m, May 1957, Paind Khan s. n. (K); About 18 miles from Chamman on way to Quetta, soil sandy loam, common, 7.6.70, M.Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 1282 (KUH); Sciad Naru Karez, 5000 ft., 21.4.1888, J.H. Lace 3704 (E00466093); Maslakh Range, Dhera “Naraband” ±5000 ft., May 1957, Paind Khan 58 (RAW); Sultan Maslakh Range, near Quetta, 5 – 6000 ft., May 2-10. 1957, R.R. Stewart 28271 (RAW); E-3 Chaghai Dist.: Naushki, Kharan –Padag, 900 m, common on hills in prickly tufts, 10.4.1953, Henry Crookshank 29 (K); Balochistan, Ragha Kakazai, 9.5.1956, W.A. Dick-Peddie 14 (RAW); Chagai Dist.: Sakht, 19.6.1957, Khairuddin 116 (RAW, K); E-4 Kalat, South, Hill top, 6500 ft., common, 20.6.57, Jafri & Akbar 1969 (K); Dasht Boddo, 2100 m, R. R. Stewart 750 (RAW); Baluchistan, Mastung-Kalat: Mangucher Valley, alt. 6000 ft., on rocks, common, 18.6.57, Jafri & Akbar 1817(KUH); Kalat South, common, 1950 m, 20.6.57, Jafri & Akbar 1969 A (KUH, E); Kalat, 5 miles from Kalat on way to Quetta, Erect, leaves spiny, Fls. yellow, 20 – 25 cm tall, soil sandy, 6.6.70, M. Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 1251 (KUH); Gustoi, Harsukh 20552 (K); Baluchistan, Duthie 18906 (K); F-4 Khuzdar Dist.: Surab, along water canal, 10.5.78, S. Nazimuddin & Sultanul Abedin 541 (KUH); Baluchistan, 1851, J.E. Stocks 930 ( K000786319, E00466093).
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A much branched, woody, 15 – 40 cm tall perennial with many apically glandulose, thin, fragile corymbosely born, erect to patent, glabrescent, pale, floral branches. Leaves pinnatifid, appressed greenish hairy above, densely white tomentose beneath, leaf lobes terminating in 3 – 6 mm long spines at the apices, midrib and lateral veins prominent, whitish extending to form spinules on margins; basal and lower cauline leaves up to ca 10 cm long and 4 cm broad; cauline leaves akin to basal but smaller and closer; uppermost and floral region leaves non-decurrent, lanceolate, shortly spined at tips and 1 -2-thorned at the base of veins. Capitula terminal, solitary, on short, leafy peduncles. Involucre narrowly ovate-cylindrical, 5 – 6 mm long, ca 2.5 mm wide; phyllaries (20 -) 30, erect to spreading or somewhat recurved, ovate-lanceolate, or lanceolate, green, rigid,, sparsely arachnoid hairy and ± papillate-glandulose, with recurved or erect to patent spines at the apices; innermost phyllaries membranous, soft, spinulose-apiculate. Receptacular bristles smooth. Florets ca 3 per capitulum. Corolla milky-white, tube ca 1. 5 mm long, limb ca 5 mm long with ca 2 mm long lobes. Anther tube, glabrous. Cypselas 3–3.5 mm long, 1.2–1.5 mm wide, dark brown, somewhat flattened, inconspicuously ± striated or ribbed. Pappus more or less persistent, bristles ca 1.5 mm long.
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