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Published In: Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh 22(2): 96. 1956. (Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh) Name publication detailView in BotanicusView 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: W. Tibet, Piti valley, Thomson (K).
Distribution: Distribution: Himalayas, Tibet and N.E. Afghanistan.
Comment/Acknowledgements: A very variable species in stature, leaves and siliculae.
Photo: Aphragmus oxycarpus (Hook. f. & Thomson) Jafri (Photo)
Map Location: B-8 Kashmir: Mt. Kolahoi, 4800 m, R.R. Stewart 9393 (K); Lidder valley, Duthie 13427 (K) ; Kashmir, R.R. Stewart s.n. (RAW) ; Burji la, Deosai plains, R.R. Stewart 20129 (RAW) ; Deosai plains, R.R. Stewart 20082 and 20091 (RAW) ; B-9 Baltistan : Chogolisa glacier, Francis 8 (RAW) ; Marpo la, 4500 m, Duthie 11813 (K) ; Pigdong la, 4500 m, Osmaston 199 (K); Birik, above pass, 3000 m, Winterbottom s.n. (K) ; Khardong la, Ludlow 505 (BM) ; Gorga, Ludlow 827 (BM) ; Ladak, J.L. Stewart s.n. (K) ; Khardong la, Ludlow & Sherriff 8430 (with Pegaeophyton scapiflorum) (BM) : Ladak, Skyangpoche, Ludlow 561 (BM).

 

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Small perennial herb, branched from the base, 2-8 cm tall, suberect or ascending to spreading, often sparsely hairy with simple hairs below and glabrous above. Radical leaves spathulate to oblong, rosulate, 10-25 mm long, 2-5 mm broad, stalked; cauline leaves few to many, distant, oblong-elliptic to oblong-linear, 6-12 mm long, 2-4 mm broad, sessile or subsessile; upper ones usually bearing flowers in their axils; all leaves ± entire, glabrous subfleshy. Racemes 5-12-flowered, lax, bracteate at least below, up to 5 cm long in fruit. Flowers c. 3 mm across, white, pinkish or pale lilac; pedicels (2-) 4-6 mm long in fruit, thin, suberect or ascending. Sepals c. 2 mm long. Petals (3.5-) 4-4.5 mm long, c. 1.5 mm broad. Stamens c. 2-2.5 : 3 mm long; anthers c. 0.5 mm long. Siliculae sublanceolate to elliptic, flattened, subcompressed, (5-) 6-10 (-12) mm long, 1.5-2 mm broad, acute, glabrous; valves 1-veined, flattened; style c. 1 mm long with minute, depressed stigma; septum complete, incomplete or absent, hyaline. not veined; seeds 4-6 in each locule, 2-seriate, c. 1 mm long, ellipsoid, brown.
 
 
 
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