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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.: April-July.
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Type:
Type: S. Iran, Kuh-Ajub, Kotschy 392 (G,K).
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Distribution:
Distribution: Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kashmir and Turcomania.
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Comment/Acknowledgements:
A very polymorphic and complex species with regards to leaves and hairiness, but fairly constant in its slender habit, siliquae and short pedicels. It grows from rocky hills to sandy plains in Baluchistan. It seems difficult to maintain separate identity, as species, of Matthiola afghanica Rech. f. & Koeie, Matthiola chorassanica Bunge ex Boiss. and Matthiola tenera Rech. f., after seeing large number of specimens. This widely occurring species needs critical studies with adequate material from its entire range of distribution.
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Map Location:
A-7 Chitral: Mastuj track, Barenis, 2000 m, 14.5.58, in rock crevices, corolla reddish-brown, Stainton 2430 (BM) ; Bambret gorge, s.w. of Chitral, 1800 m, crevices, 19.4.58, fls. brown, Bowes Lyon 612 (BM) ; Drosh, 1350 m, Toppin 202 (K) ; S. of Hindukush, chalt, 1800 m, Giles 452 (K); Gilgit, dry slopes, common, R.R. Stewart 17 (RAW, HJ); B-8 Dras valley, Batkokan, Inayat s.n. (K); Astor, Kamrinala, Shankargarh, Inayat 25486 (K); B-9 Kashmir: Baltistan, Duthie 11928 (E, BM) ; Skardu, Clarke 29993 (E) ; Ladak, J.L. Stewart s.n. (K) ; Baltistan, Los in Hasora, Winterhottom 712 (K) ; Baltistan, Paskyum, dry hillside, fls. brownish ' yellow, Osmaston 119 (K); Ladak, Ludlow & Sherriff 8352 (BM); Ashkolay, Clarke 30398 G (BM) ; Skardo, Clarke 29980 (BM) ; Leh, 3450 m, Ludlow 504 (BM) ; Baltistan, Kiris, c. 2400 m, Ludlow 340 (BM) ; Shigar, 2400 m, R.R. Stewart 20571 (RAW) ; Shayunk valley, Thomson s.n. (K) ; Falconer 138 (K) ; Baltistan, Kandhe to Sailing, Hushe valley, 26.7.55, Webster & Nasir 6280 (RAW) ; Karakorum, Clarke 30093 B(K); Ashkolay, Clarke 30313 (E); D-4 Baluchistan: Quetta, Kirani, Stocks s.n. (K); Rodhahar pass, Stocks s.n. (K); near Yarn karez, Lace 3598 (E); Barori hill, Quetta, Sultanul Abedin 4901 (KUH) ; Tangi dam, sandy loam mixed with gravel, M. Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 1389 (KUH) ; Sultan, in desert, R.R. Stewart 28092 (RAW); Zandra, Ziarat, often hanging from rocks, fls. dirty yellow, common, 25.6.57, Jafri & Akbar 2215 (KUH) ; Zandra, fls. yellowish-brown, on rocks, Jafri & Akbar 2175 (KUH) ; c. 38 miles from Quetta on way to Naushki, Sultanul Abedin 5023 (KUH) ; E-5 c. 30 miles from Quetta on way to Sibi, on hills, fls. greenish-yellow, Faruqi & Qaiser 2271 (KUH).
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Perennial, 15-100 cm tall, with ± woody base, usually tomentose with stel¬late, whitish hairs, branched mostly from the base. Basal leaves oblanceolate, elliptic-ovate to linear-elliptic, rarely sub-lyrate (1-2-jugate), sinuate, lobulate, dentate to almost entire, very variable in size and shape, (1.5-) 2-8 cm long, 0.5-2.5 cm broad, stalked; upper leaves smaller, oblanceolate to linear, sinuate-toothed to entire, shortly stalked to sessile. Racemes 10-20-flowered, lax, up to 30 cm long in fruit. Flowers 10-15 mm across, brownish-mauve to purplish, often fragrant; pedicels 3-5 mm long in fruit, erect or ascending, ± thickened. Sepals 8-10 (-12) mm long. Petals 15-20 mm long, 1.5-2.5 mm broad, oblong-linear, entire, often inrolled from the apex. Stamens 5-6: 7-10 mm long; anthers 2-2.5 mm long. Siliquae linear-oblong, usually straight, slender, compressed, (50-) 60-100 cm long, 2-2.5 (-3) mm broad, pubescent (often densely) ; valves with a distinct mid-rib; stigma narrower than the pod, erect, bilobed, short, conical; seeds many, 2-2.5 mm long, c. 1.5 mm broad, with a very narrow marginal wing.
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