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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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Synonym Text:
A. demissa Krasch. in Acta Inst. Bot. Acad. Sci. URSS, ser. 1, 3: 348. 1936; A. edgeworthii Balak. in J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. 63(2): 329. 1967 nom. Illegit.
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Flower/Fruit:
Fl. Per.: August-September.
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Type:
Type: Himalaya, Kumaon, alt. 10-11500 ft., M. P. Edgeworth, R. Strachey & J. E. Winterbottom s. n. (K!).
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Distribution:
Distribution: Pakistan, Afghanistan, Pamir, India and China (Xizang).
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Comment/Acknowledgements:
Two forms are recognized by Pampanini (l. c.). Specimens with single erect, upright stems belong to f. genuina Pamp. while those with several diffuse low growing, ± spreading stems have been described as f. diffusa.
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Map Location:
B-6 Kashmir, Zanskar, Rangdum, on river plain, alt. 10,000 ft., flowers yellow, plant slightly scented, Sept. 12, 1931, W. Koelz 2921 (K, L); B-9 Kashmir, Dras to Matyan, Sept. 1, 1928, R. R. Stewart s. n. (PESH, RAW); Matyan-Dras, 10,000 ft.,1.8.1891, G. A. Gammie for J. F. Duthie s. n. (K); Likir, Ladakh, Kashmir, 1-2 Aug. 1933, Walter Koelz 6295 (MICH); Baltistan, Godpur (Satpara), 35° 12´.0 N, 75° 37´.0 E, c. 2715 msl, dry ground, 7500 ft., Aug. 10, 1936, Walter Koelz 9583 (MICH, NA); Kashmir, Ladak, Bragnag, in waste ground, alt. 13000 ft., fls. yellow-green, Sept. 4, 1931, Walter Koelz 2808 (K, NY); Baltistan, Kasuimik to Doghani, ± 9000 ft., 16.8.1940, R. R. Stewart 20795 (MICH, RAW); Ladakh, Leh, 11,500 ft., August 1905, A. Meebold 881 (CAL).
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Annual or biennial, up to 20 (-30) cm tall herb with slender single or several erect or ascending to procumbent, greenish-yellow, ± patent hairy stems from base. Basal leaves long petioled, petiole to 1.5 cm long, lamina oblong to broadly ovate, 2-pinnatisect, 10-20 (-25) x 6-15 mm, with linear-lanceolate, 2-5 x 0.5-1 mm, acute, remote ultimate segments; upper and middle stem leaves subsessile to sessile, basally auricled, less dissected; uppermost in floral region linear, entire, oblong-pyramidate. Capitula heterogamous, subsessile or short peduncled, ovate, c. 2 x 1.5 mm, erect, in very narrowly pyramidate panicles, with up to 4 cm long, erect or ascending branches, remote or congested towards apices. Involucre 3-seriate, outermost phyllaries narrowly ovate, 1.75-2 x 0.5-1 mm, hairy to glabrescent, narrowly hyaline-scarious on margins; median and inner phyllaries ovate, 2.5 x c. 1 mm, glabrous with broadly scarious margins, acute. Receptacle hemispherical, glabrous, c. 0.5 mm long. Florets 20-25, yellow; ray-florets female, 15-20, with narrowly urceolate-tubular, 2-dentate corolla; disc-florets 4-5, bisexual, functionally staminate, with narrowly clavate-tubular, 5-toothed corolla. Cypselas oblong, 0.6-0.8 mm long, brown.
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