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(Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
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Acceptance
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Accepted
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(Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
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Flower/Fruit:
Fl. Per.: March-September.
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Type:
Type: India, Western banks of Jamuna, from Delhi to Agra Royle (LIV).
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Distribution:
Distribution: Endemic to the desert area of India and Pakistan.
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Comment/Acknowledgements:
A very variable species, erect to prostrate, with thick woody roots (shrubby) to slender thin roots (looking like annuals). A good example of this habit is clearly exhibited by S. Abedin & Abrar Husain’s 6302, 6303, 6404, 6305 and 6306 (KUH). Year old plants have an annual looking habit, while after 2-3 or more years develop thick woody roots. Those with annual looking habit may be sometimes confused with the following species, but the sparsely fruiting branches with usually fruits a little longer and generally narrowed at either ends, are distinctive. Some of the specimens approach very near to F. linearis Decne. (see note under the species excluded).
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Map Location:
C-5 N.W.F.P: Waziristan, Blatter & Fernandez 753; D-4 Quetta, Lace 3400 (K); E-5 Sibi, Lace 3426 (E,K); E-6 Punjab: Multan, Ritchie s.n. (E); Cunningham s.n. (E); without locality, J.L. Stewart s.n. (E,K); Churkana, Kazmi s.n. (KUH); F-4 Sehwan, sandy ground, plants spreading, Jafri 2678 (KUH) ; Between Sehwan and Laki Shah Saddar, plants almost prostrate, sandy ground, 6.4.59, Jafri 2709 (HJ, KUH); G-2 Makran, Santsar, near Rest House, soil sandy clay, 29.8.71, S. Abedin & Abrar Hussain 6302,6303,6304,6305 and 6306 (KUH) ; 20 miles from Ghais kaur, on way to Hushab, sandy soil, S. Abedin & Abrar Husain 6011 (KUH) ; Zarin puk, silty clay, flowers pink, S.I. Ali, S.A. Faruqi & S. Abedin 1109 (KUH) ; G-2 17 miles from Pasni on way to Turbat, 5.4.72, A. Ghafoor & M. Qaiser 176 (KUH); 18 miles from Turbat, on Turbat-Mand Rd. S.I. Ali, S:A. Faruqi & S. Abedin 1040 (KUH) ; G-3 4 miles from Uthal on way to Karachi, 20.4.70, M. Qaiser, S.A. Raza & Abrar Husain 710 (KUH); 4 miles from Hushab, Kazmi 1102 (KUH); G-5 Sind: Tharparkar dist. Diplo, sandy soil, 20.10.70, M. Qaiser, A. Ghafoor & Abrar Husain 3840 (KUH) ; Between Islam Kot and Nagarparkar, M. Qaiser, A. Ghafoor & A. Husain 3910 (KUH) ; About 15 miles from Nagarparker on way to Islamkot, 24.10.70, M. Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 4166 (KUH); near Diplo, sandy soil, erect herb, c. 30 cm tall, fls, white, M. Qaiser, A. Ghafoor & A. Husain 3815 (KUH).
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Perennial, shrubby, often woody at base, 10-40 (-60) cm long, densely hoary with bipartite appressed hairs; branches erect or subspreading. Leaves oblong-linear, very variable in size, 10-40 (-65) mm long, 1-5 mm broad (rarely longer and broader), sessile, entire, strigose. Racemes 5-20-flowered, lax, ebracteate, up to 30 cm long in fruit. Flowers c. 3 mm across, orange-coloured to whitish; pedicels 46 mm long in fruit, ascending, not thickened. Sepals 3.5-4 mm long, 1 mm broad. Petals slightly longer than sepals. Stamens c. 3:4 mm long; anthers c. 1 mm long. Siliquae 10-20 (-25) mm long, (2.5-) 3-4 mm broad, compressed, usually slightly narrowed towards both the ends; valves often slightly torulose; style 1.5 (-2.5) mm long, thin, tapering into a short, sub-bilobed stigma; seeds uniseriate, about 3 mm in diam. (incl. c 1 mm wide wing).
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