(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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Contributor Text:
M. QAISER
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Flower/Fruit:
Fl. Per.: January-October
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Type:
Holotype: India, Klein s.n.1799, Herb. Willd. No. 6063 (B).
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Distribution:
Distribution: Bangla Desh, Ceylon, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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Illustration:
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Map Location:
B-6 Mardan Dist.: Naushera, a small shrub or tree, S. Toppin 2014 (K); C-6 Mianwali Dist.: 2 miles before Isakhel (Bannu-Mianwali Road) Sultanul Abedin & M. Qaiser 9299 (KUH); 4 miles from Kalabagh on way to Bannu, Sultanul Abedin & M. Qaiser 9316, 9318 (KUH); D-5 Loralai Dist.: About 25 miles from Loralai on way to D. G. Khan, M Qaiser 2507, 2508,2509 (KUH); D-7 Jhang Dist.: About 10 miles from Rangpur on way to Jhang, M Qaiser 2581 (KUH); Sahiwal Dist.: 8 miles before Mian Chunnu (Sahiwal-Multan Road) Sultanul Abedin & M. Qaiser 9355, 9356 (KUH); E-2 Chagai Dist.: Sulphur Spring, Nokkundi, M. Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 4414, 4415 (KUH); 6 miles from Naushki on way to Quetta, M. Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 4379 (KUH); E-6 Multan Dist. 2 miles from Taunsa Barrage on way to Multan, M Qaiser 2572, 2573 (KUH), Muzaffargarh Dist.: Alipur, Sultanul Abedin & M. Qaiser 9358 (KUH); F-2 Makran Dist.: Palm garden behind Rest House, Hoshab, Sultanul Abedin & Abrar Hussain 6553 (KUH); Rest House, Sunstar S.I. Ali et al 1128, 1132 (KUH); 25 miles from Sunstar on way to Gwadar, Sultanul Abedin & M. Qaiser 6329 (KUH); 31 miles from Mand on way to Turbat, S. I. Ali, S.A. Faruqi & Sultanul Abedin 1977 (KUH); F-3 Makran Dist.: Palm Garden, 3 miles from Panjgur on way to Hoshab, Sultanul Abedin & Abrar Hussain 6710-6712 (KUH); F-4 Dadu Dist.: 24 miles from Dadu on way to Larkana, S.A. Faruqi & M. Qaiser 2226, 2227 (KUH); 4 miles from Sehwan on way to Hyderabad S. A. Faruqi & M. Qaiser 2216-2218 (KUH); 10-15 km. S. of Sehwan 26° 26' N, 67° 52' E, ad repas Indus fluvii, K.H. Rechinger 28698 (W,G); Kalat Dist.: Health Centre Garden, Khuzdar, M. Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 1200 (KUH); F-5 Nawabshah Dist.: 12¼ miles from Nawabshah on way to Sanghar, Sultanul Abedin 3998 (KUH); Ranipur, M. Qaiser 3616 (KUH); Sanghar Dist.: Dehban off Indus Distributory, S. I. Ali et al. 4056 (KUH); Belli, Ali et al 4077, 4078 (KUH); Sukkur Dist.: Govt. College Sukkur, Campus, M. Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 4301, 4302 (KUH); Khairpur Dist.: S.M.H. Jafri 2415 (KUH); G-2 Makran Dist.: 25 miles from Pasni on way to Turbat, Sultanul Abedin & Abrar Hussain 6483 (KUH); Palm Garden Teejaban, Sultanul Abedin & Abrar Husain 6015, 6027, 6031 (KUH); 12 miles from Gwader on way to Pasni, Sultanul Abedin & Abrar Hussain 6416, 6421 (KUH); Kappar to Gwader, Jennifer Lamond 467 (KUH, E, W); Between Tump and Turbat, A. Ghafoor & M. Qaiser 302 (KUH); Turbat, M. Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 300 (KUH); G-3 2 miles from Awaran on way to Hoshab, M. Qaiser, Asad Raza & Abrar Hussain 763, 764 (KUH); Lasbella Dist.: Near River Bela, Lasbella, Sultanul Abedin & M. Qaiser 7448 (KUH); Bela (left side of the Indus across the Indus Delta to Mager Bin, Schlagintweit 11459 (BM); G-4 Thatta Dist.: Jangshahi, near Haleji Lake, S.M.H. Jafri 1602 (KUH); 10 miles from Keti Bunder on way to Gharo, Sultanul Abedin, M. Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 9411 (KUH); Karachi Dist.: Karachi University Campus, Shamirn Akhter s.n. 28.8.1958 (KUH); G-5 Thatta Dist.: 3 miles from Sujawal on way to Jati, M. Qaiser, Asad Raza & Abrar Hussain 680, 682 (KUH); Thatta, 60 miles east of Karachi, B. L. Burst B.1569 (E); 10 miles from Thatta on way to Karachi, M. Qaiser 4263-4265 (KUH); Gharo, Akhtar Hussain s.n.(E); 14 miles from Thatta on way to Jati, M. Qaiser, A. Raza & Abrar Hussain 679, 680, 690 (KUH); 45/6 miles from Karachi on way to Hyderabad, Sultanul Abedin 3535 (KUH); 3 miles from Thatta on way to Hyderabad, M. Qaiser, Asad Raza & Abrar Hussain 676, 678 (KUH); Dhabeji, Siraj A. Rizvi s.n. 16.10.1960; Gharo, S. I. Ali s.n. 2.5.1964; G-5 Dadu Dist.: 1 mile from Jamshoro on way to Hyderabad, M. Qaiser, Asad Raza & Abrar Hussain 617 (KUH); Pokhran, 4 miles from Kurchat, Sultanul Abedin 3501 (KUH).
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A tall shrub or small sized tree, 2-6 (-8) m tall with reddish-brown bark, glabrous. Leaves pseudovaginate, sessile, ovate with deltoid base, amplexicaul or auriculate, younger imbricate, acute, 1-2 mm long, without coherent margins. Recemes both vernal and aestival (vernal usually simple, aestival densely compound) 3-12 (-15) cm long, 3-4 (-5) mm borad. Rachis minutely papillose or entirely glabrous. Bract triangular, acuminate, somewhat irregualrly denticulate at the margin, sometimes slightly keeled, c. 1 mm long, pedicel shorter than bract, c. 0.5 mm long. Sepals 5, fused at the base inner somewhat broader than the outer, outer more acute, ovate or trullate-ovate to somewhat orbicular, deeply denticulate at the apex, margin somewhat membranous, 0.75-1 mm long, c. 0.5 mm broad. Petals 5, free, elliptic or elliptic-obovate, obtuse 1-2 mm long, 0.75-1 mm broad. Stamens 5, filaments filiform, inserted in between the 10 lobes of the mesodiscine disc, insertion perihypodiscal, anthers somewhat unequal, apiculate. Styles 3, clavate, ovary somewhat bottle-shaped, trigonous, truncate at top. Capsule c. 6 mm long, conical, triangular.
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