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Published In: Opobalsamum declaratum in dissertatione medica ... sub praeidio ... Caroli von Linné ... submittit ... Wilhelmus Le Moine ... Upsaliae 18. 1764. (Opobalsamum) Name publication detail
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
Flower/Fruit: Fl.Per.: March-September.
Type: Type: “Habitat in Arabia”.
Distribution: Distribution: South west Europe (S.E.Spain), North Africa, Palestine, S.Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.
Comment/Acknowledgements: Common in arid and semi-arid waste lands in sandy clay gravelly soils in N.W.F. Province, Punjab, Sind and Baluchistan from sea level to 1200 m. The plant is used as a cure for cough and headache in Baluchistan and is also fed to goats.
Illustration: Forsskaolea tenacissima L. (Illustration)
Map Location: B-6 Malakand, Nasir & Siddiqi 1009 (RAW); Malakand Pass, hot rocks, S.Ali 26035 (RAW); B-7 Swat, Lahore students 41,71 (RAW); Hazara Dist.: Tarbella Dam, Nasir & Siddiqi 1477 (RAW); C-6 Peshawar Dist.: 7 miles from Peshawar towards Khyber pass, near bridge on dry stream, R.J.Rodin 5299 (RAW); Khyber Agency, Ali Masjid, Landi Kotal, Hassanuddin & Siddiqi 2664 (RAW); Machi Kand, Khyber Pass, Mohinder Nath 15439 (RAW); C-7 Campbellpur Dist.: Attock Fort, common, R.R. Stewart 19344 (RAW); Jhelum Dist.; Mount Tilla, R.R. & I.D.Stewart 789 (RAW); D-4 Quetta Dist.: Rani Kot-Quetta, 7.5 1967, MG.Konieczny s.n. (KUH); Ab-e-Gum, c. 3000 ft., E.Nasir 28407 (RAW): D-6 Near D.I.Khan, Y.Nasir 4616 (RAW); F-4 Dadu Dist.: Laki, foot of hills, among crevices of rocks, common, S.M.H.Jafri 2714 (KUH); G-2 Makran Dist.: Palm Garden, Teejabhan, wet sandy clay soil, Sultanul Abedin & Abrar Hussain 6041 & 6042 (KUH); G-3 Las Bella Dist.: 30 miles from Jhal Jhao on way to Awaran, sandstone hills, Sultanul Abedin & M.Qaiser 7471 (KUH).

 

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A suberect, up to 65 cm tall, hispid, woody herb. Leaves with 5-25 (-30) mm long petiole; lamina ovate-rhombic to obovate-orbicular, 1-4(4.5) cm long, 0.7-3(3.7) cm broad, upper side with uncinate and straight hairs, lower side densely white-wooly, margin sinuate or crenate dentate, cuneate at the base; stipules ovate, 3-5 mm long, 1.5-2.5 mm broad, persistent, scarious. Involucral bracts (2-) 5 (-8), lanceolate-oblanceolate, 5-6 mm long, densely wooly. Male flowers 4-8 (-12), subsessile, female flowers 2-6 in centre of head, sessile. Calyx unequally 3-lobed. Stamen c. 3 mm long, anther apiculate. Ovary conical-ovate, c. 2 mm long, surrounded by dense wool, stigma as long as ovary. Achenes ovoid-elliptic, c. 3 mm long, reddish-brown.
 
 
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