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Published In: Bull. Cl. Phys.-Math. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pe}tersbourg 3: 107. 1845. (Bull. Cl. Phys.-Math. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pe}tersbourg) Name publication detail
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 5/8/2022)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 2/12/2022)
Contributor Text: Rubina Abid & M. Qaiser
Contributor Institution:

Department of Botany, University of Karachi, Karachi

and

Centre for Plant Conservation, ‎University of Karachi – Pakistan


 

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Annual or biennial, prostrate or erect, branched herbs, usually with shortly stalked capitate glands, sometimes intermingled with long hairs. Leaves elliptic–obovate or oblanceolate,entire or dentate with a fragile, cartilaginous apex. Capitula laxly corymbose, heterogamous, radiate. Involucre campanulate, phyllaries 2–3–seriate, outer herbaceous, inner apically fimbriate with membranous margins. Receptacle flat, glabrous. Florets few, all fertile. Ray florets 1–2 seriate, female, lilac, limb spirally recurved, tube usually covered with short scattered hairs. Disc florets tubular – narrowly funnel form, 4–5–lobed, bisexual, yellowish. Anthers ecaudate. Style branches acuminate. Cypselas homomorphic, elliptic–oblong or oblanceolate, 2–ribbed, glabrous or sparsely sericeous.Pappus uniseriate with white or dirty white bristles, basally connate into a ring, deciduous, detaching as a unit.

A small genus of 4 species, distributed in Central Asia, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Represented by the following species in our region.

 
 
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