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Published In: Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Botany 2(4): 105. 1958. (Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Bot.) Name publication detailView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
Flower/Fruit: Fl.Per.: June-July.
Type: Type locality: India, Kunawar.
Distribution: Distribution: Alpine Himalayas (Sikkim to Kashmir).
Comment/Acknowledgements: Found in the Baltistan and Kaghan areas from 4300-4430 m. Grows on rocks forming almost smooth cushion-like tufts and mats.
Illustration: Saxifraga pulvinaria Harry Sm. (Illustration)
Map Location: B-6 Chitral, Toppin 738 (K); B-7 Kaghan Vy., Saiful-Maluk, 29.7.1954, Ch. Shaukat Ali s.n. (RAW); Hazara: Chapri, Duthie 21319/a(K); Baltistan: B-8 Karakorum 4130 m, Hartmann 748 (RAW); above Chogolisa glacier, c. 13000', E. Nasir & G. Webster 6247 (RAW).

 

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Stems densely tufted, decumbent, 3-6 cm long. Leaves 2 mm long, densely imbricate, broadly oblong, apex obtuse, flattened with a white perforation, keeled below. Flowers white, terminal, solitary, sessile. Sepals 1.5 mum long, ovate, obtuse, glandular-ciliate. Petals 3-4 mm long, limb suborbicular, base unguiculate, margin undulate, sometimes lobed. Filaments c. as long as the sepals. Style short. Capsule broadly ovoid.
 
 
 
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