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(Last Modified On 5/20/2022)
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Acceptance
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Accepted
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(Last Modified On 1/8/2021)
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Contributor Text:
Abdul Ghafoor, M. Qaiser & Roohi Abid
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Contributor Institution:
Centre for Plant Conservation, University of Karachi – PAKISTAN
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Synonym Text:
Saussurea glanduligera Schultz Bip. in Linnaea 19: 331. 1846; Hook. F., Fl. Brit. Ind. 3: 371. 1881 incl. var. major; R.R. Stewart, Ann. Cat. Vasc. Pl. W. Pak. & Kashm. 775. 1972; Hajra in Hajra et al., Fl. Ind. 12:199. 1995; Dhaliwal & Sharma, Fl. Kulu Dist. 378. 1999; Shen in Zhi, Fl. Xianjiang 5: 291. 1999.
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Flower/Fruit:
Fl. Per.: July – September
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Type:
Lectotype: China, Xinjiang (Sinkiang) Uygur, 15.8.1856 – 18.8.1856, H.A.R. v. Schlagintweit s.n. (GH) (designated by Raab-Straube, l.c.).
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Distribution:
Pakistan (Kashmir, Ladakh,), India (Himachal Pradesh), China (Western Tibet, SW Sinkiang).
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Comment/Acknowledgements:
Occurs in rock crevices, among stones, scree slopes and subalpine to alpine meadows, dry hillslopes, cold steppes, between 4500 and 5500 m.
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Map Location:
A-8 Baltistan, Deosai Plains, alt. 12800 ft., erect, perennial herb, common, 15.08. 2002, Jan Alam & S. Karim 1257 (KUH); Deosai, perennial herb, 15 cm, alt. 3900 m, common, 22.08.2003, Jan Alam & M. Qaiser 2181 (KUH); B-9 North Western Himalayas, Teakzhun Tso, Ladak, Kashmir, on dry slope, alt. 16,000 ft., Fls. Lavender with strong odor, July 20, 1931, Walter Koelz 2397 (NY); Lacha lung La, Rupshu, NW Himalayas, 15 – 17,000 ft., Aug. 12 – 16, 1913, R. R. Stewart 356a (NY); Zingpooha, Ladak, Kashmir, among stones, alt. 18,000 ft., Walter Koelz 2531a (NY); Kashmir, Tiam K Taklung La, 14. 8. 1933, Walter Koelz 6524 (NY); Tokti La, Zanskar, Kashmir, 4267 m, 01.07.1848, T.Thomson s.n. (K372712); Taglung La, Ladakh, dry hill slopes, growing in clumps, fls. pinkish-red, alt., 4740 m, 16 July, 1941, F. Ludlow & G. Sheriff 8505 (UPS); East Ladakh, am weg Kongmaru La –Sphang, ca 4500 m, schutthand (schnifers), 9.8.1987, Hans Hartmann 3156 (MSB); Ladakh, alpine steppe mit dominant Artemisia gmelinii hintergesund des Tales sudlich rumtre (N-Seite Taglung La), 30˚ 00ˊ N, 76˚ 25ˊ E, 4650 m, 6. 8. 1992, Hans Hartmann 4038 (MSB).
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Erect, up to 20 cm tall, rarely caespitose perennial, with branched, stout rootstock bearing many sterile leaf-rosettes and flowering twigs. Stem unbranched, basally covered with remains of petioles. Rosette and basal cauline leaves on basally dilated and densely arachnoid or woolly hairy petioles, lamina narrowly linear-lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, (2-) 3 – 10 (-12) cm long, (5-) 7 – 12 mm wide, concolorous, pale green and densely stipitate glandular hairy on either side, coarsely sinuate-dentate on margins; middle and upper cauline leaves akin to lower ones but smaller in size. Capitula solitary, terminal, 2.5 – 3.5 cm across, on 10-20 cm long stems, surrounded by but not enveloped by upper most leaves. Involucre campanulate, 2.5 – 3.5 cm wide. Phyllaries 3-4-seriate, green, triangular-ovate to lanceolate, hairy; outer phyllaries 10 – 20 mm long, 2.5 – 3.5 mm wide, inner ones slightly shorter and almost linear. Receptacle without bristles. Corolla purplish-red, 15 – 17 (-25) mm long, tube 7 – 8 mm long, limb 8 – 9 mm long with 4 – 5 mm long lobes. Cypselas cylindrical, 4-angled, 3.5 – 5 mm long, glabrous, scaberulous, glandular apically. Pappus biserate, pale brown; outer bristles to 4 mm long, scabrid; inner bristles 12 – 14 mm long, plumose.
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