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(Last Modified On 5/12/2022)
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Acceptance
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Accepted
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(Last Modified On 9/10/2020)
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Contributor Text:
Roohi Abid, M. Qaiser & Abdul Ghafoor
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Contributor Institution:
Centre for Plant Conservation, University of Karachi – Pakistan
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Synonym Text:
Mulgedium sagittatum Royle, Ill. Bot. Himal. Mts. 1: 252, 2, Tab. 61, fig. 2. 1836; Chondrilla longifolia Wall.Cat. 3272 & 3273 nom.nud; Lactuca longifolia Wall.ex DC., Prodr. 7: 135. 1838 ( non Mich. 1803); Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 3: 405. 1881; Bamber, Pl. Punj. 378. 1916; Collett, Fl. Siml. 284. 1921; Blatter, Beaut. Fls. Kashm. 2: 2. Pl. 34, Fig. 1. 1928; Kitam., Fl. Afghan. 428. 1960; Lactuca wallichiana Tuisl., Ann. Nat. Hist. Mus. Wien 72:608. 1968 nom. superfl.; Rech. f., Fl. Iran. 122: 191. Tabs. 130 & 201 Fig. 13-14. 1977; Breckle et al., in Dittmann, Vasc. Pl. Afghan. Augm. Chklist 177. 2013.
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Flower/Fruit:
Fl. Per.: July-August (October) Vern.:Shali, Daha (Punjabi)
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Type:
Type: Nepal, Wallich (K-W).
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Distribution:
Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Nepal.
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Comment/Acknowledgements:
On rocky slopes, walls and hedges, around cultivated fields, waste ground,on clayey loam soils at the elevation between 1800-3200 m.
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Map Location:
A-6 Chitral Dist.: Bombrait, 24.7.1956, A.R. Beg 1538 (RAW); Minaband, Torikhoo-Chitral, perennial herb, 1 m in height, infrequent on undulating slope, 2970 m, 16.8.2006, Haidar Ali 5070 (KUH); B-7 Swat Dist.: Below Utrot, Swat, 2100-2400 m, 22.7.1953, R.R. Stewart & A. Rehman 25156 (BM,RAW); Hazara Dist.: Naran-Kagan road, c.2400 m, 23.8.1987, Y. Nasir, Rubina Akhtar & Hanif 13074 (RAW); Kagan valley, between Balakot (approx. 34º 35’ N., 73º 20’ E.) and Babusar pass (approx. 35º 0’N., 74º2’E.), July- Sep,1954, John Abel 106 (BM); Muzaffarabad Dist.: Leepa valley, erect herb, 1 m tall, florets light blue, 26.8.1972 M. Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 5012 (KUH); B-8 Astor Dist.: Rama valley, S.W of Astor, erect herb, 12”-18” tall, florets pale violet–blue, 2 cm across, 3100 m, 1.8.1967, T.E. Lankester & T.A.S. Pearson 1320 (BM); B-8/9 Kashmir, heads large, blue florets, 3 feet high, 22.7.1876, C.. B. Clarke 29421 A (BM); Tragbol, 2550 m, 4.8.1919, R.R. & I.D. Stewart 4833(RAW); Between Sharda and Kail, erect herb, c. 90 cm tall, florets blue, 23.9.1987, T. Ali, M. Qaiser & M. Ajmal Khan 527 (KUH); Pahlgam, Kashmir, florets lilac blue, Sep., 1913, R.M. Thackeray s.n. (BM); Battal, Sonamarg, ± 2850 m, 31.8.1940, R.R. Stewart 21292 (RAW); Wangat valley, florets purple daisy, up to 3' high, 12.8.1940, P.M. Pinfold 257 (BM); Badwan, field borders, 12.7.1946, R.R. & I.D. Stewart 21604 (RAW); Balakut, Liddar valley, waste ground among cultivation, florets blue, c.1900 m, 22.8.1956, O. Polunin 56/425 (B M); Srinagar, Pahalgam, c.2350 m, 30.6.1978, C. R. Lancaster 91 (BM); Kashmir, 2700-3000 m, 24.8.1993, J.F. Duthie 12538 (BM).
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Perennial shrubs.Stem glabrous-partly pubescent, erect, 35 – 80 (-100) cm tall, paniculately-corymbosely branched above. Basal leaves in rosette, subsessile- attenuate at the base, 6 – 12 (-15) x 0.5 –2 cm, ½ pinnatisect- distantly lobed, entire, acute; cauline leaves sessile, linear-lanceolate, hastate-sagittately auriculate; uppermost linear, small. Synflorescence lax panicle. Capitula erect, cylindrical, 14-20 florets per capitulum, 0.8 – 2 x 0.5 – 1 cm, pedunculate. Involucre phyllaries 12-15, 4-seriate, outer phyllaries 1.5 – 3 x 1 – 1.5 mm; middle ones 4 – 7 (-9) x 1.5 – 2 mm, ovate-lanceolate, acute; innermost 11 – 16 x 1 – 1.5 mm, broad linear-oblong, acute-subobtuse.Florets blue or lavender. Cypselas 4 – 5 x c. 1.2 mm, brown- dark brown, oblanceolate, thick towards margin, finely white-pilose at the apex, with 8-10 narrow ribs on each side; beak 3 – 4 mm long, white-greenish, slender-filiform, equal or smaller than the body. Pappus 4 – 6 mm long, yellowish-white
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