Published In:
Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 6: 275. 1837[1838]. (early Jan 1838) ( Prodr.)   
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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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Flower/Fruit:
Fl.Per. July-October.
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Type:
Type: Ad Suembu Nepalensium, floret Junio Buswa Nwaris, Hamilton (K!).
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Habitat:
A fairly common species between 2000-3000 m, in moist, shady areas and grassy places.
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Distribution:
Distribution: Pakistan, Temperate Himalayas (Kashmir to Bhutan) Khasia, Asam and Mynamar.
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Map Location:
A-3 Mirga, 9200 ft, Chitral relief expedition 1895, s. coll. 17249 (BM); B-6 Swat Dist: Pande forest between Jabba and Jahanabad, M. Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 4803 (KUH); B-7 Hazara Dist.: Changla Gali, Sept. 12, 1918, R. R. Stewart 4102 (RAW); ibid, July 1, 1934, Mohindar Nath 343 (KUH); Changla, ±8000 ft, Jun. 11926, R. R. Stewart s.n. (RAW); Changla Gali, Murree Hills, ±8000 ft, R. R. Stewart 3962 (K); ibid, ± 5000 ft, heads white, Rubina Akhtar 11602 (RAW); Dunga gali, Aug. 7, 1981, Y. Nasir & Khan 9597 (KUH, RAW); Nathia-Dunga gali, Oct. 16, 1955, S. M. A. Kazmi 645 (KUH); 9 miles from Nathia Gali on way to Abbottabad, Oct. 4, 1970, S. A. Farooqi & M. Qaiser 3477 (KUH); along roadside around Pines Hotel, Nathiagali, 8200 ft, 3.9.1969, Saida Qureshi 192 (KUH); Potha, Kashmir Rd, Murree Hills, 4400 ft, R. R. Stewart 23628 (K); Sarittut, ± 7900 ft, Todd Machowitz 266 (RAW); Thandiani, ± 8000 ft, 3.9.70, Y. Nasir 6192 (RAW); ibid, 15.8.1956, R. R. Stewart & E. Nasir s.n. (RAW); Abbottabad, Thandiani Road, 7500 ft, Sept. 5, 1986, Nasir, Rubina Akhtar & Hanif 12028 (RAW); Above Utta, ± 6000 ft, Y. Nasir 11567 (RAW); Mansehra Dist.: Mundi, Una forest, Siran valley, Qutubuddin Marwat 529 (RAW); Kashmir Prov.: Poonch, 8.8.11950, Ghulam Yasin 18 (KUH); Ganga Choti, Poonch, 17.9.1952, A. Rashid Khan s.n. (RAW); Muzaffarabad Dist.: Dwarkhan, Leepa valley, Ulfat Hussain 455 p.p. (KUH); Leepa valley, 30.8.1967, Jan Mohammad s.n. (RAW); Leepa-Reshian Road, near Leepa, 28.8.1986, M. Qaiser & Rizwan Yusuf 7818 (KUH); Swat Dist.: Between village Bahr & Shangla, c. 2000 m, A. Ghafoor & Tahir Ali 4041 (KUH); Malam Jabba, ± 10000 ft, 16.10.1991, A. Ghafoor & students 5386 (KUH); ibid, A. Ghafoor 5371 (KUH); ibid, 20.10.1985, Atiqur Rehman s.n. (KUH); Shahee, Dir, exposed side of the hill, stony soil, ± 9000 ft, Saleem 185 (K); Shangla Par, ± 6500 ft, 17.9.1976, Dilawar & Naeem Shah s.n. (K); B-8 Kashmir Prov. Baramulla to Thana Mande, Oct. 1880, A. P. Young s.n. (BM); Cashmere (Kashmir) without any definite locality, A. P. Young s.n. (BM); Kashmir above Pahlgam, 8500 ft, Avalanche gulley in forest area, O. Polunin 56/467 (BM); Dangian, Aug. 22, 1971, S. Abedin & M. Qaiser 9227 (KUH); Kashmir, Sept. 1880, A. P. Young s.n. (BM); ibid., Pangtaran to Thanin (Kashmir), A. P. Young s.n. (BM); Phalgam grassy places ± 9000 ft, R. R. Stewart 21812 (K); Poshrana to Basamgalla, oct. 1880, A. P. Young s.n. (BM); Sokhsarai to Poshrana, A. P. Young s.n. (BM); C-7 Rawalpindi Dist.: Murree, Sept. 1885, J. R. Drumond 1765 (K); Murree Hills, R. R. Stewart 29137 (RAW).
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Short lived (biennial?) herbs or undershrubs, (14-) 20-60 (-70) cm tall, sparsely to ± moderately hairy, sometimes shortly glandular pubescent, stem often simple but sometimes branched beneath the inflorescence. Leaves linear lanceolate-oblanceolate, (17-) 20-100 x 2-8 mm, bases shortly or strongly decurrent, ± forming wing, apex acuminate to mucronate, thin, sparsely hairy on both sides especially on midribs. Capitula many, in corymbs, 2-4 x 2-8 mm; florets all female or predominantly male or female, peduncle thin, sparsely hairy; phyllaries 4-5-seriate, whitish, outer 2.2-3.5 x 1.2-1.5 mm lanceolate, obtuse, middle one 3.5-4 x 1.2-1.7 mm lanceolate, obtuse, inner oblong spathulate 3-3.2 x 0.8-1 mm with acute tips. Female florets filiform, 1.5-2.5 mm long, bisexual florets (functionally male, disc florets), tubular, 1.8-2.5 mm long. Cypselas of female florets 0.4-0.8 mm long, papillose; pappus setae thick.
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