Published In:
Voyage dans l'Inde 4(Bot.): 94, pl. 102. 1844. ( Voy. Inde) 
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(Last Modified On 5/20/2022)
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Acceptance
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Accepted
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(Last Modified On 1/8/2021)
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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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Synonym Text:
Saussurea schultzii var. nana Pamp. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Ital. 4-6:33. 1915; S. nana (Pamp.) Pamp. in Sped. Ital. de Filippi nell Himalaia Caracorum e Turchestan Cinense (1913-1914) ser. 2, 11: 176. 1933; R. R. Stewart, l. c. 776. 1972; Hajra in Hajra et al., l. c. 206. 1995; Y. S. Chen in Hong, l. c. 110. Map 48(2)-52. 2015.
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Flower/Fruit:
Fl. Per.: July – September Vern.: Chota doda, Prerek Mul, Spanrisa do-bo, and Spagohitaho (Ladakhi)
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Type:
Lectotype: India, Himachal Pradesh, Kinnaur, Habitat in glareosis altissim. [inter Yarpo et Lamoutché] 18300 ped.[ 11 or 17 Aug. 1830], V. Jaquemont 1780 (P 836206)(designated by Raab-Straube, l.c.); Syntypes (P 836193) & (P 836194).
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Distribution:
Pakistan,(Kashmir) China (Xinjiang, Xizang, Qinghai) and India (Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Khand).
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Comment/Acknowledgements:
Similar to S. obvallata in having capitula enveloped by uppermost ± boat shaped leaves (bracts) which are pale–green or purplish red rather pale-yellow as in S. obvallata. Differs from S. obvallata in having solitary villous capitulum rather than 3–10 glabrous capitula. Phyllaries are unequal, leaves lanceolate with acuminate densely glandular apices and uppermost leaves (bracts) subtending capitula are purplish red and ovate.
Grows well on open scree slopes, alpine meadows, along streams, between 4000 – 5600 m in alpine zone among boulders and stones.
Roots are stimulant and used to treat boils, headache, cough, cold, fever and lung infections.
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Map Location:
B-7 Mansehra Dist.: Babusar Pass, 35⁰ 10′ N, 74⁰ 0′ E, “Open cushion and rosette plant formations in the free gelifluction bet or on solifluction lobes in the alpine belt; schist-scree S-facing” Veg. record # 27, Alt.: 4300 m, 20.7.1990, G. & S. Miehe 559 (RAW); B-8 Baltistan, Deosai, alt. 14000 ft., erect perennial herb, upto ±10 inches tall, heads purple, growing among stones on mountain slope, fairly common, August 2002, Jan Alam and Noor Kamal 1242 (KUH); Skardu Dist.: Satpura Pass above Skardu, 14 – 15000 ft., 1.8.1940, R.R. Stewart 20183 (RAW, NY, GH, KUH); Kashmir, Neelam valley, Bhuli Mali top, on sandy rocky area, ± 4656 m, 27.8.2016, Mumtaz Hussain s. n. (HUP); B-9 Kashmir, Ladakh, Kyensa La –Rupshu, top of hill, 19000 ft., July 1 1931, Walter Koelz 2231a (RAW, MICH, NY,US); Debring, Rupshu, Kashmir, alt. 15000 ft., 15 – 16 Aug. 1933, Walter Koelz 6543 & 6558a (MICH); Kiangchu, Rupshu, Kashmir, alt. 14000 ft., more plain area, 20 – 21 Aug. 1933, Walter Koelz 6626 (MICH); Taklung La, Ladakh, Kashmir, alt. 17000 ft., bracts magenta rose, 14 Aug. 1933, Walter Koelz 6508 (MICH); Lochalung La, Rupshu, basal leaves longer, pappus white, Aug. 1913, R.R. Stewart 146 (RAW 8038); Leh, Stok Nullah, stony hill slopes, 16000 ft. 12 Aug. 1941, F. Ludlow & G. Sheriff 8557 (BM 535123); Rupshu, above Tsakzhun TSO, along stream, 17500 ft., 33º 28ʹ N, 78º 44ʹ E, July 1931, Walter Koelz 2424a (NY); Rupshu, Kyensa La, on hilltop, 19000 ft., 9 July 1931, Walter Koelz 2231a (NY); Kashmir, Leh, Tanglang Pass, 4880 m, 1872, Brandis s.n. (K); Leh, Depsang, 5250 – 5450 m, 1914, C. Antilli s.n. (FI); Pakistan: Karakorum, Valley sup. Delo Sciaiok, Camp del Gaudo, 4830 m, 12 June 1914, G. Dainelli & O. Marinelli s.n. (FI) (holotype of Saussurea schultzii var. nana Pamp.)
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An unbranched, erect, 3 – 8 (– 30) cm tall, perennial herb with simple or branched woody rootstock densely covered with remains of previous years petioles. Leaves in basal rosette and cauline, shortly petiolate to ± sessile, scabrid, concolorous; basal and lower stem leaves linear-lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, (2-) 6 – 10 cm long, (2-) 4 – 16 mm wide, dorsally glabrescent, ventrally glandular hairy, sinuate-dentate on margins, acute; middle and upper cauline leaves narrowly ovate-elliptic, 1.5 – 3.5 cm long, 5 – 18 (–22) mm wide; upper semiamplexicaul, acuminate; uppermost below capitula pale-green tinged purple or purplish-red, ovate, half-enveloping the capitula, 2.5 – 4.5 (–5) cm long, ˂ 3 cm wide dentate-margined, acuminate. Capitula solitary, 1.5 – 2 cm across, on short, densely woolly peduncles. Receptacular bristles (1.3–) 1.5 – 2 mm long. Involucre narrowly campanulate to obconic , 1.5 – 2.5 (-3.5) cm wide, ± silky hairy. Phyllaries 4-5-seriate, unequal in size, all acute, arachnoid-woolly hairy, outermost triangular-ovate, 5 – 8 (–12) mm long, 3 – 4 (–5) mm wide; median phyllaries narrowly ovate to linear, 1.2 – 1.8 cm long, 2 – 3 mm wide; innermost phyllaries linear 1.5 – 2.2 cm long, 1 – 2 mm wide, acuminate-acute. Corolla purplish red, 1.5 – 1.8 cm long, limb slightly longer than 6.5 – 8.5 mm long tube, lobes 4.5 – 6 mm long, ± patent. Cypselas oblong-obovoid, 5 – 6 mm long, 4 – 5-ribbed, yellowish. Pappus biseriate, dirty pale-white, outer bristles 2 – 3.5 (-5) mm long, scabrid, inner ones 12 – 15 mm long.
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