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Published In: Archives du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 9(1–2): 68. 1856-1857[1856]. (Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat.) Name publication detailView 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.: May-August.
Type: Type: Described from Tibet.
Distribution: Distribution: Pakistan, India, Tibet from 3000-6000 m in the Himalayas.
Comment/Acknowledgements: The tender tips are eaten as vegetable.
Map Location: A-7 Hunza: Ulter nullah above Baltit, c. 10000 ft., R.R.Stewart 26458 (RAW); Kashmir, Da, Rupshu, in gravel along dry stream c. 15500 ft., Fls. greenish, sprinkled outside with purplish, Walter Koelz 2275 (NYBG;RAW) A-9 Kashmir: Tag, Ladak, c. 1500 ft., Walter Koelz 2692a (NYBG;RAW).

 

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Dioecious, up to 50 cm tall, pubescent undershrub, sparingly covered with stinging hairs. Leaves with 0.4-2.0 cm long petiole; lamina ovate or broadly ovatesubrotundate, 1-4.5 cm long, 1-2.5 cm broad, subcordate-truncate at the base, margin serrate, apex acute; stipules ovate-oblong, connate, 4-6 mm long. Panicle of cymes axillary, longer than petiole. Flowers greenish-purple. Sepals orbicular, not armed hispid, enlarged in fruit. Achenes oblong-ovate, c. 2 mm long.
 
 
 
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