(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:
A. RADCLIFFE-SMITH
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Flower/Fruit:
Fl. Per.: Mar-Apr. Fr. Per.: Apr: July.
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Type:
Holotype: Iran, Aucher-Eloy 5298 (P). Isotypes (G! K!). Paratype: ‘prope pagum Gere in monte Buschom’ (? Kuh-e Sabz Pushan nr. Shiraz), 25 Mar. 1842, Kotschy 111 (P). Isoparatypes (G! K! W).
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Distribution:
Distribution: Iran, Afghanistan. Very common on rocky hills, in limestone gorges, in gravelly sand and nala beds and in sandy clay soil; [1000'/300m. 3500'/1067 m. - 7200'/2200 m.
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Illustration:
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Map Location:
A-8 Gilgit: Chalt, recd. Jan. 1887, Giles 10 (K); B-6 Chitral: Chitral, 13 Apr. 1958, Stainton 2197 (BM); 1 km. S. of Polo field towards bridge, 27 May 1979, Dunn s.n. (K); B/C-4 Khyber: Khyber Agency. 30 Mar. 1964. Saeed Ahmed sm. (RAW); B-8 Gilgit: Gilgit, (fide Stewart): 1)4 Quetta - Pishin: Pasht Khana, no date given, Stocks 851 (K); near Quetta, 1838-9, W. Griffith 4697 (K); Shelabagh, Khojak, 6 Apr. 1888, J.F. Duthie 7809 (BM, K); Urak, 13 Apr. 1889, J.H. Lace 3650 (K); Mir Kasim Tangi, May 1893, J.F. Duthie s.n. (K); Quetta, 27 Mar 1938, Ved Parkash 16429 (RAW); Urak, 11 May 1952, H. Crookshank 115 (K); Quetta Brewery, 1 Jun. 1952, H. Crookshank 211 (K); m. Quetta, 2-10 May 1957, R.A. Stewart 28177, 28349 (RAW); Hanna, 2-10 May 1957, R.R. Stewart 28350 (RAW); Urak, 17 July 1957, E. Nasir s.n. (RAW); Repp s.n. (W); Chaman, Koeie 4472 (W); Hanna, 4 May 1963, M.A. Siddiqi 1739 (RAW); 8 Apr. 1970. Sultan-ul-Abedin 4616 (KUM; Sibi: ‘in jugo W. Ziarat’, 12 May 1965, K. H. Rechinger 29290 (K, W); 72 km. Ziarat - Quetta, 13 Apr. 1970, Sultan-ul-Abedin 4786 (KUH); D/E-4 Kalat: Lak Pass, 12 Jun. 1965, M.A. Siddiqi & Y. Nasir 3500 (BM, K, RAW); E-3 Chagai: SE of Chahar Sar at 28° 56' N, 65° 03' E, 16 Apr. 1954, H. Crookshank 128 (K); Lora, Maynard s.n. (W); E-4 Chagai: Nushki Pass, 25 May 1969, Zaffar Ali 5716 (K, RAW); ? Kelah Brori (? Brahui) Hill, 17 Apr. 1970, Sultan-ul-Abedin 4900 (KUH); F-4 Kalat: Khuzdar, 9 Apr. 1971, Sultan-ul-Abedin & Abrar Husain 7177 (KUH).
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An erect or decumbent, many-stemmed, glabrous or tomentellous, glaucous subshrub with stiff, wiry stems up to 1 m tall or long, arising from a thick woody stock. Leaves of the main stems alternate, subsessile, linear-lanceolate, 1-5.5 cm x 1-5.5 mm, acute or subacute at the apex, tapered to the base, entire. Pseudumbels of the main stems 5-rayed; pseudumbel-leaves whorled, sessile, elliptic-oblanceolate, 1-3 cm x 5-8 mm, acute or subacute, ± cmeate; ray-leaves opposite, sessile, ovate-deltoid to ovate-rhombic, 7-8 x 7-8 mm, subacute or obtuse, rounded-truncate. Leaves of the short lateral shoots, which later develop on the old main stems, small (< 1 x 1 mm), scale-like and closely-imbricate proximally, becoming more like those of the main stems distally. Pseudumbels of the lateral shoots (2-) 3-4-rayed; pseudumbel-leaves sub-orbicular, ovate-rhombic, obovate or elliptic-oblanceolate, 5-10 x 2-6 mm; ray-leaves broadly ovate-rhombic to transversely-ovate, 4-6 x 5-10 mm, sometimes mucronulate. Cyathia solitary, terminating the main and lateral shoots, and in the forks of the pseudumbeldichotomies. Glands trapezoidal, truncate and pectinate-lacerate, or crescentic and shortly and broadly 2-homed, yellowish-green to ochreous or orange. Fruits rounded-trilobate, 4-4.5 x 4.5-5 mm, smooth, glabrous or tomentellous. Styles united to c. half-way, 2.5 mm long, bilobate. Seeds obovoid-cylindric, 3 x 2 x 2 mm, smooth, pale grey or whitish, with a petasiform caruncle c. 1 mm across.
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