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(Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
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Acceptance
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Accepted
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(Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
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Synonym Text:
Gnaphalium cauliflorum Desf., Fl. Atl. 2: 267. 1799.
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Flower/Fruit:
Fl.Per.: February-September.
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Type:
Type: Egypt, desert near Cairo, Forsskål (C).
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Habitat:
A fairly common desert plant. Ifloga spicata is polymorphic in habit concerning characters like height of the plant, degree of branching, density of inflores¬cence and indumentum. Several subspecies have been described by Chrtek from Egypt. But as many of these characters are influenced by the environment, hence a more thorough study of the species in its entire range of distribution is necessary before recognizing infraspecific taxa.
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Distribution:
Distribution: Canary Island, southern Spain to N Africa through Middle East to Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. A fairly common desert plant, grows in sand.
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Map Location:
A-7 20 km S of Gilgit: gravel terraces of Gilgit River, lower montane semi-desert scrub, 1420 m, G. & S. Miehe 4655 (Miehe); B-6 Peshawar Dist.: Islamia College, Peshawar, May 1928, R. R. Stewart 10189 (KUH); B-7 Mardan Dist.: Dargai, 21.4.1954, S. Ali s.n. (KUH); Between Bari Kot and Chakdra, M. Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 7438 (KUH); B-8 Gilgit Dist.: Jaglote, c. 40 miles from Gilgit, 15.5.83, S. Omer, S. Nazimuddin & A. Wahid 825 (KUH); C-6 N.W.F.P.: Peshawar, 1939, Sher Ahmad, s.n. (RAW); ibid, 21.4.1954, A.Rehman s.n. (BM); Dera Ismail Khan, c. 600 ft, M. A. Siddiqi & Y. Nasir 7354 p.p. (KUH); Bannu, in arenosis, 400 m, Rechinger 30038 (W); Bannu: Tutaki 50 km N Bannu, 700 m, Rechinger 30099 (W); C-7 Campbellpur Dist.: Campbellpur, 30.3.1936, R. R. Stewart 15311 (KUH); ibid, August 1949, Rahmatullah 15 (KUH); ibid, April, 1935, E. Nasir s.n. (RAW); Jhalar, Attock Dist., in sand, E .Nasir 16319 (RAW); Dhok Pathan, Attock Dist., river sand, R. R. Stewart & E. Nasir 27896 (RAW); Hillan Khurd (Kotii), 2000 ft., in stones, Nasir & R. Ali 5447 (RAW); Islamia College, Peshawar, R. R. Stewart 10139 (KUH); Chablat - Cambellpur rd., third mile, F. & Y. Nasir 8988 (RAW); Jhelum Dist.: Sand plants in rocks, 6 Oct. 1884, J. E. T. Aitchinson 44 (K); Hirnpur, Jhelum Dist., May, 1937, K. L. Malhotra s.n. (RAW); D-4 Balochistan Dist.: Northern Balochistan in sandy soil, October 1884, J. E. T. Aitchinson 44 (K); Balochistan hills, very common in cultivated land, Stocks 700(K); D-6 Mianwali, Darya Khan rd., in sandy place, Y. Nasir 12477 (RAW); Jauharabad Bus Stand, 1.3.1960, A. Jalis s.n. (BM); E-4 Fields near Bolan Pass, Griffith 976 (K); F-3 Makran Dist.: 45 miles from Hushab on way to Panjgur, 20.4.1970, M.Qaiser, A. Raza & Abrar Hussain 1082 (KUH); About 35 miles from Panjgur on way to Hoshab, M. Qaiser, A. Raza & Abrar Hussain 1094 (RAW); Panjgur, 900-1000 m, Popov 195, Rechinger 28178 (W); 70 miles from Awaran on way to Hushab, 3.4.1972, A. Ghafoor & M. Qaiser 62 (KUH); 120 km from Awaran, Tahir Ali 760 (KUH); 60 km S Panjgur, 800 m, Rechinger 28083 (W); About 4 miles from Gishkor on way to Hushab, 22.4.1970, M. Qaiser 807 (KUH); F-4 Larkana Dist.: Larkana, 19.3.1983, Kamal A. Malik, S. Omer & Abdul Wahid 2391 (KUH); Kalat Dist.: 10 miles before Wad, Khuzdar-Wad Road, 9.4.1971, S. Abedin & Abrar Hussain 7252 (KUH); G-2 Makran Dist.: 5.5 miles from Mund on Mund-Turbat Road, 13.2.1969, S. Abedin 957 (KUH); 5 miles from Mund on way to Turbat, 10.4.69, S. I. Ali, S. A. Farooqi & S. Abedin 1649 (KUH); 110 km from Turbat on way to Gwadar, soil loamy sand, A. Ghafoor & Steve M. Goodman 4676 (KUH); 20 miles from Gaishkaur on way to Hushab, 24.8.1971, S. Abedin & Abrar Hussain 6006 (KUH); c. 2 km from Gajar & Mashke, on way to Mangli & Awaran, soil sandy, A. Ghafoor & Steve M. Goodman 4458 (KUH); Bandgan Nala in Ras Kohrange and flows NW to Padag, 4000 ft, Henry Crookshank 71 (K); G-3 Makran: 8-25 km W Awaran versus Turbat, Rechinger 27712 (W).
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Annual, (1-) 5-10 (-12)cm high, often branched from the base, stem and branches forming a dense globular to cylindric inflorescence from near the base or in the upper part. Leaves appressed tomentose to sericeous-tomentose, glabrescent beneath, often with adhering sand-grains, 6-20 x c. 1.2 mm with wider sheathlike base, the margins more or less involute. Capitula in groups, congested on small lateral branches, overtopped by the leaves. Involucre 3-4 mm long; phyllaries, hyaline, brownish to stramineous, apiculate, the inner with a thickened yellowish mid-rib, median and inner fertile and subtending a single female florets each. Disc florets numerous, bisexual, narrowly tubular with indistinct teeth. Cypselas brown, 0.5-0.6 mm long, obovoid; pappus (only in. the bisexual florets) of easily deciduous bristles, plumose in the upper part, c. 1.5 mm long.
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