Published In:
Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 76: 208. 1938. ( J. Bot.) 
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(Last Modified On 5/12/2022)
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Acceptance
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Accepted
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(Last Modified On 8/9/2020)
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Contributor Text:
A. Ghafoor & S. Abedin
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Contributor Institution:
Centre for Plant Conservation, University of Karachi – Pakistan
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Synonym Text:
Crepis foetida non L.: sensu Calrke, Comp. Ind. 252. 1876 and Hook. f., Fl. Brit.Ind. 3: 393. 1881; Burkill, Flow. Pl. Baloch. 43. 1909; Bamber, Pl. Punj. 376.1916.
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Flower/Fruit:
Fl. Per.: March – June Vern.: Mushna-Jambo
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Type:
Type: India: Kumaon (=Naini Tal) May 1845, Thomas Thomson 1037 pro parte (holo.-K # 0008324 & 0008325; Iso.-P, M, GH & BM # 000996293).
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Distribution:
Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.
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Comment/Acknowledgements:
Commoly grows in dry, sandy-clay and gravelly silty sands in wastelands, near cultivated ground, and low hilly areas.
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Map Location:
B-7 Mansehra Dist.: stony ground, common, 19.6.1959, S. M. H. Jafri & S. I. Ali 3280 (KUH); Gilgit, 1490 m, 15.7.1954, R. R. Stewart 26219 (K, RAW); B-8 Gilgit, 4900 ft., weed, 15.7.1954, R. R. Stewart 26219 (BM); C-6 Peshawar, 25.4.1936, Mohindra Nath 1210 (RAW, KUH). C-7 Rawalpindi Dist.: near Wah, flat, dry sandy-gravelly areas below hills, fls. Pale-yellow, 3 April, 1973, C. C. Townsend 73/324 (K);Attock Dist.: Hassanabdal Top, 750m, 13.4.1930, R. R. Stewart 10938 (RAW, KUH); Hassanabdal, Northwest Punjab, 2500 ft., fls. Yellow, 13. 4. 1930, R. R. Stewart 10938 (K); Campbellpur Dist., Campbellpur to Jholar, April 1949, R. R. Stewart s. n. (RAW, KUH); Attock Dist.: Near Campbellpur, near Rail track, 1530 ft., 2. 4. 49, R. R. Stewart 23399 (K); C-8 Jammu, 300 m, heads yellow tinged with reddish-brown at tips, March 27, 1980, Collector unknown F. No. 433 (K);Jammu, Regio Temp. T. T. (K); G-2 Turbat Dist.: Tump, Palm Garden, Turbat-Mund Road, soil clayey, prostrate, heads yellow, 27.3.1971, S. Abedin & A. Husain 6192 (KUH); Baluchistan, Stocks 1053, 1153 (K); Kashmir, Naoshera, 1800 ft., 30 June 1876, C.B.Clarke 28154 (BM)
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Annual, prostrate to erect, corymbosely branched, up to c. 50 cm tall, glandular and eglandular herb. Leaves rosulate 2 – 17 x 0.5 – 3 cm, somewhat oblanceolate in outlines, pinnately lobed, lobes patent to runcinate or leaves lyrately sinuate, upper ones small, sessile, ± amplexicaul, subentire to dentate. Capitula with numerous florets, 1 – 1.5 cm long and broad, little drooping; peduncle 1 – 15 cm long, with few bracteoles and stiff glandular or eglandular hairs. Receptacle alveolate, fimbriate. Involucre ± 1 cm long and broad, glandular and eglandular hairy, outer phyllaries 10-12, unequal, linear-lanceolate, with narrow scarious margin, slightly keeled, 2 – 4 mm long; inner ones 12-16, equal, lanceolate, with broad scarious margin, cymbiform, keeled. Ligules yellow, as long as or slightly exceeding involucre, tube 3 – 4.5 mm long. Cypselas dimorphic, ± fusiform, 20-ribbed, brownish-red, peripheral ones 5.5 – 7.5 mm long, slightly sulcate, central ones longer and thinner, 7.5 – 12 mm long. Pappus 5 – 6 mm long, 2-seriate, creamish, persistent.
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