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Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 6: 532. 1837[1838]. (early Jan 1838) ( Prodr.)   
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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 1/9/2021)
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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 taraxacifolia Wall., Cat. 100, n. 2914. 1831–nom. nud.; Cyathidium taraxacifolium Lindl. ex Royle, Ill. Bot. Himal. Mts. 251. Tab. 56, f. 2. 1835.
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Flower/Fruit:
Fl. Per.: July-September Vern.: Psangijarpachan (Ladakhi), Dandelion Saw-Wort (Engl.)
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Type:
Type: India, Himachal Pradesh, Sirmore, s.n. G. Govan 24 A (G-DC).
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Distribution:
Pakistan (Gilgit, Kashmir), NW to NE India, Nepal, Bhutan
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Comment/Acknowledgements:
The sun dried rhizomes are powdered and added to preboiled milk. The mixture is kept for 2-3 days and used to cure fever.
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Map Location:
B-9 Kashmir, Tragbal Pass, 12000 ft., leaves runcinate, August 7, 1919, R.R. Stewart 4899 (MICH, RAW); Kashmir, locality not given, 1938, P.N. Kohli 26 (K); Gilgit Dist.: Naltar, above sking point, erect perennial herb, upto ±0.7 m, purple florets, alt. ±3700 m, rare for this area, grows in moist mountain crevices, 17.8.2005, Jan Alam & Sher Sultan 3402 (KUH); Naltar Bala, grows in rocky crevices, perennial herb, upto 40 cm, florets purple, ± 3700 m, Jan Alam & Sher Sultan Baig 3465 (KUH); Baltistan, Shigar, on alpine slopes, common, 3400 m, 7.8.2014, Zaheer Abbas & G. Ali 135 (HUP); Deosai plains, erect herb, upto 35 cm, common in gravelly grass land, Jan Alam & Noor Kamal 1424 (KUH); Khatun-Ruch, Khaltarow, perennial herb, upto 10 cm tall, heads dark blue, open grassy slope, 20.8.2004, Sher Wali Khan & Shabbir Hassan 586, 672 (KUH); Baltistan: Deosai plain, Shamushkur, grows on gravel slope, ± 30 cm, head purple, alt., ± 13500 m, common, 14.8.2002, Jan Alam et al. 1239 (KUH); Kashmir: Pir Panjal Pass above Birzul Chawki, 13-1400 ft, 28.7.1940, R. R. Stewart 19974A (KUH).
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Perennial, 15 – 50 cm tall, erect, single-stemmed, unbranced herb with upright rootstock. Leaves basal and cauline, on 4 – 6 cm long petioles, narrowly oblong-elliptic or narrowly obovate, 5 – 15 cm long, 1 – 2.5 cm broad, discolorous green and glabrous above, densely hairy and greyish white beneath, runcinate, imparipinnate pinnatisect, lateral lobes subopposite, 5-7 pairs, reclinate, triangular-ovate, 6 – 10 mm long, 4 – 10 mm wide, entire or 1–or 2-toothed on margins, acute to obtuse, mucronate; terminal lobe triangular, 10 – 15 (-25) mm long, 5 – 15 mm wide, acute. Capitula solitary, terminal on stem, 2 – 3.5 cm across. Involucre broadly campanulate, 2.5 – 3 cm wide. Phyllaries 4-5-seriate, sparsely hairy, apically long acuminate, blackish or very dark-green; outer phyllaries narrowly ovate-elliptic, 9 – 10 mm long, 1 – 2 mm wide; median phyllaries narrowly ovate-linear, 10 – 14 mm long, 1 – 2 mm wide; inner ones linear, 14 – 16 mm long, 1 – 1.5 mm wide. Corolla purple, 15 – 16 mm long, tube 7 – 8 mm long, limb equalling the corolla tube, lobes 4-5 mm long. Cypselas cylindrical, 4 – 4.5 mm long, glabrous, apically shortly crowned. Pappus yellowish brown, outer bristles scabrid, 2 – 3 mm long, inner bristles 11 – 12 mm long, plumose.
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