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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:
Cicerbita persica (Boiss.) Beauverd in Bull. Soc. Bot. Gen. II. Ser. 2: 142. 1910; Streptorhamphus persicus (Boiss.) O. & B. Fedtsch. Consp. Fl. Turk. 4: 319.1911; Rech. f., Fl. Iran. Comp. II: 122 . 198. Tabs. 136 & 202, figs. 27 & 28. 1977; Kirp. in Bobr. & Tzevel, Fl. USSR 29: 325. Pl. 19. fig. 4. 2000 (Engl. Trans.); Breckle et al., in Dittmann, Vasc. Pl. Afghan. Augm. Chklist 189. 2013.
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Flower/Fruit:
Fl. Per.: April-July.
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Type:
Type: Iran: "Hab. in Persiâ australi in rupestribus montis Kuh-Ajub prop [sic] Persepolim", Kotschy 409 (Holo. G-BOIS, Iso – LE, W)
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Distribution:
A Western Irano-Turanian element, distributed in Central Asia, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Grows among rock crevices, stony and calcareous hills, on steep rocky slopes between 1000 and 2500 m.
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Map Location:
D-4 Quetta Dist.: Urak, 16.6.1962, R. R. Stewart 872 (RAW); Hanna lake, 4.5.1963, M. A. Siddiqui 1757, 1759 (RAW), 10 miles from Mustung on way to Quetta, c.45 cm, erect herb, florets whitish, 11.5.1978, S. Nazimuddin and S. Abedin 629 (KUH); Kudali Spring, Maslakh, Quetta, c.40 cm, florets yellow,14.5.1978, S. Nazimuddin, Hameedullah & S. Abedin 804 (KUH); Wali Tangi, Quetta, 40-50 cm, erect herb, florets yellow, latex present, 22.5.1984, S. Omer & A.Ghafoor 1773, 1798 (KUH); Hanna lake, herb, c. 50 cm, florets yellow, 5.5.1984, S.Omer 1281 (KUH); Karkhasa, Chiltan hills, Quetta, florets, yellow, 23.4.1987, Rubina Akhter 12608 (RAW); Kalat to Quetta, Takpass, 30 km from Quetta, florets golden yellow, on steep rocky slopes, crack in rock, c.2100 m, 22.4.1965, Jennifer Lamond 703 (E); Ziarat, c.2400m, 28.5.1968, Zafar Ali 4814 (RAW), E-4 Kalat Dist.: Harboi hills: Jurgi Pass, c. 41 km fromKalat on way to Nichar, calcareous hills, erect perennial herb, florets yellow,12.05.1990, A. Ghafoor & Steve M. Goodman 5155 (KUH).
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Perennial plants with 1 – 3 cm thick root. Stem 30 – 50 cm tall, glabrous sulcate-fistular, leafy mostly at the base, paniculately branched above. Leaves simple, glaucous, shortly petiolate, dilated at the base, mostly broad-elliptic, runcinate-pinnatipartie, sinuate dentate, obtuse; cauline leaves sessile, oblong-elliptical, glabrous, semiamplexicaul. Synflorescence racemosely paniculate. Capitula 2 – 2.5 x c. 2 cm, campanulate, each with 32-38 florets; peduncles short, thick bracteolate.Involucre phyllaries 5-6-seriate, stereome divided, rather thick, dorsally hispid, subobtuse-acute; outermost 6 – 8 x 5 - 6 mm, ovate; middle ones 13 – 15 x 3 – 4 mm, ovate-lanceolate or oblong, innermost 19 – 22 x c. 3 mm, broadly linear - oblong. Florets yellow. Cypselas 4 – 5 x 3 – 3.5 mm, yellowish-brown, much compressed, broad elliptic to ovate, 1-middle rib prominent and 2 lateral ribs more or less distinct on each side, gradually attenuate into 7 – 10 mm long, dark brown, filiform beak, longer than the cypsela. Pappus biseriate, outer bristles small; inner ones 8 – 10 mm long, white-pale.
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