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Published In: Linnaea 19: 330. 1847[1846]. (Jul 1846) (Linnaea) Name publication detailView in BotanicusView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 5/20/2022)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 1/8/2021)
Contributor Text: Abdul Ghafoor, M. Qaiser & Roohi Abid
Contributor Institution: Centre for Plant Conservation, University of Karachi – PAKISTAN
Synonym Text:

Leontodon kunthianum Wall., Cat. 114, n. 3292. 1831 – nom. nud.; Aplotaxis leontodontoides DC., Prodr. 6: 539. 1838; Saussurea kunthiana C. B. Clarke, Comp. Ind. 225. 1876;  Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind.  3: 369. 1881; Bamber, Punj. Pl.: 507. 1916; S. sungapensis Hand.-Mazz., in Acta Horti Gothob. 1937-38 (12):328. 1938; S. rhytidocarpa Hand.-Mazz., l.c. 331. 1938; S. kunthiana C. B. Clarke var. filicifolia Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 3:369. 1881; Saussurea stoliczkae auct. non C. B. Clarke: Kitamura in Acta Phyt. Geobot. 24: 8. 1969; Saussurea irregularis Y.L.Chen & S. Yun Liang in Acta  Phytotax. Sin. 19(1): 106. 1981.

Flower/Fruit:

Fl. Per.:  August – November

Type:

Holotype: Described from Kamaon (India), Wallich  Cat. # 3292 (G).

Distribution:

Bhutan, Nepal, China (Qinghai, W.Sichuan, Xizang, NW Yunnan), India (Himachal Pradesh, Uttarkhand, and Sikkim), Pakistan (Kashmir, Ladakh).

Comment/Acknowledgements:

Occurs in subalpine and alpine region on scree slopes, forest margins between 3200 and 5500 m.

Several stems from a densely branched rootstock, discolorous  leaves with 5-8 (-12) pairs of lateral lobes and 2 – 3 mm long receptacular bristles make S. leontodontioides distinct from other species.

Map Location:

B-8 Kashmir: Vicinity of Pahlgam – opposite Pahlgam, on East Lidder river, 27 road-miles north of Islamabad, 12 – 13000 ft., July-August, 1927, F.G. Dickason 903 (MICH); B-9 Jammu & Kashmir,  an oberer grenze des alpinen Rasens, W Oberhalb alp von Matho, (Südl. Tal des Indus), 4930 m, 20 E, Ladakh, 8.8.1976, Hans Hartmann 2097 (MSB); Ladakh, in granit-schurtt zwischen Steinblöcker, S-Seite des Khardong La, ca 4920 m, 15.8.1995, Hans Hartmann s.n. (MSB). 


 

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Perennial, tufted, rhizomatous, (0-) 4 – 12 (-15) cm tall herb. Stems several, when present, each originating from densely branched  rootstock covered with dense purplish-green, fibrous-lacerated petiolar residue or remains of previous years leaves, densely arachnoid-floccose to glabrescent. Leaves discolorous, glabrous or sparsely hairy above, densely greyish white hairy beneath, usually in rosette and spreading on ground, on upto 4 cm long petioles, linear-oblong to elliptic or oblanceolate, 4 – 15 (-18) cm long, (0.8-) 1 – 1.5 cm wide, pinnatisect, lateral lobes 5 – 8 (-12) on each side, ± triangular to broadly ovate or elliptic, 1.2 – 3.5 cm long, 3 – 6 mm wide, basally entire or  with one shallow tooth or auricle on side, obtuse and mucronate at the apices, terminal lobes small,  triangular, obtuse. Capitula solitary, amidst  rosette of leaves or terminal on stem, 1.5 – 2.5 cm across. Involucre broadly campanulate, 8 – 12 mm wide. Phyllaries 5-seriate, glabrous, hardly reflexed above; outer and median phyllaries narrowly triangular ovate to lanceolate, 9 – 12 mm long, 1 – 3 mm wide, purplish on margins, acuminate, inner ones linear-lanceolate, 14 – 15 mm long, 1.5 – 2.5 mm wide, acute. Receptacular bristles 2 – 3 mm long.  Corolla purplish-red, (15-) 18 – 22 mm long, tube 10 – 14 mm long, limb 7 – 8 mm long with 4-5 mm long lobes. Cypselas oblong, 2.5 – 4 mm long, transversely rugose, glabrous. Pappus biseriate, pale-brown, outer  bristles scabrous, 2 – 3 mm long, inner bristles 12 – 15 mm long.

 
 
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