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Published In: Bot. Abh. Beob. 35. 1787. (Bot. Abh. Beob.) Name publication detail
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 5/12/2022)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 9/11/2020)
Contributor Text: Sultanul Abedin
Contributor Institution: Centre for Plant Conservation, University of Karachi – Pakistan
Synonym Text:

Scorzonera L., Sp. Pl. 2: 791. 1753 pro parte; Picridium Desf., Fl. Atlant. 2: 220. 1799.


 

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Annual to perennial, glabrous herbs with solitary to branched stems. Leaves in rosettes and cauline, entire to pinnatifid, upper leaves usually reduced and amplexicaul. Capitula homogamous,  many-flowered, solitary, on  apically dilated or thickened peduncles. Involucre usually campanulate. Phyllaries 3-5-seriate, with well-marked scarious margins, inner ones longer than outer. Receptacle naked, ± alveolate. Ligules yellow, peripheral ones sometimes with grey, reddish or purplish stripes outside, occasionally purplish at the base. Anthers sagittate at the base. Cypselas brown, heteromorphic, 4-5-ribbed, ribs of outer ones tuberculate, transversely rugose , inner ones light brown, somewhat smooth, usually sterile. Pappus homomorphic, many-seriate, soft, cottony, hairs connate at base into ring and dehiscing on it.

A small, well-defined genus of c. 8 species (Mabberley, 2008),  occurring  mainly in Mediterranean countries, S. W., C. and S. Asia. Represented in Pakistan by the following species.

 
 
 
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