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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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Contributor Text:
M. QAISER
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Flower/Fruit:
Fl. Per.: June-October
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Type:
Holotype: Egypt, Herb. Linn 1136/3 (LINN).
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Distribution:
Distribution: Africa (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Senegal, Sudan, Abyssinia, Eriterea, Somaliland, Kenya), Middle East (Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Iraq, Kuwait, Iran) Pakistan, India and Afghanistan.
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Comment/Acknowledgements:
This is our largest and commonest species, often planted as roadside tree. The bark and irregularly rounded galls (Sakun hi Sindhi) are used for tanning.
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Illustration:
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Map Location:
B-7 Swat Dist: 27 miles from Pir Baba on way to Saidu, Sultanul Abedin 8539 (KUH); C-6 Kohat Dist.: 32 miles from Kohat on way to Bannu, Sultanul Abedin & M. Qaiser 9291, 9293, 9494 (KUH); 10 miles from Khushhal Garh on way to Kohat, Sultanul Abedin & M. Qaiser 9296 (KUH); Bannu Dist.: About 30 miles from Bannu on way to D.I.Khan, M. Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 1621 (KUH); Cambellpur Dist.: 1 mile from Chakwal on way to Choa Saidan Shah,S. A. Faruqi & M. Qaiser 2889, 2891 (KUH); 25 miles from Jand on way to Rawalpindi, Sultanul Abedin & M Qaiser 9284 (KUH); Peshawar Dist.: Peshawar, Schlagintweit 2585 (BM); Naushera, S. M Toppin 2012, 2013 (K); Cherat, near Pubbi, B.L Burtt B-995 (E); C-7 Jhelum Dist.: Lu Agrittaceis etc c. 1000 m ad radices mt. salim in det Jhelum Prope Salimas, Kheora R. Drummond 16641 (K); Rawalpindi Dist.: Rawalpindi R. P. Cult 341 (K); D-4 Quetta Dist.: Ranikhet Quetta, M. Konieczny 7th. May, 1958 s.n. (KUH); D-5 Zhob Dist.: 40 miles from Fort Sandeman on way to Quetta, M. Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 1564 (KUH); Lorali Dist.: Gambaz, M. Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 1518 (KUH); D-6 Multan Dist.: Multan Edgeworth s.n. (K); Dera Ismail Khan Dist.: 3 miles from Duggi on way to D. I. Khan, M. Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 1168 (KUH). Mianwali Dist.: About 12 miles from Khushab on way to Sargodha, M. Qaiser 2728-2730 (KUH); Chunnian, Sultanul Abedin 7561-7563 (KUH), D-7 Sahiwal Dist. 8 miles from Mian Chunu on way to Sahiwal, Sultanul Abedin & M. Qaiser 9537 (KUH); Pak Pattan, Griffith 965 (K); Jhang Dist.: About 10 miles from Rangpur on way to Jhang, M. Qaiser 2580 (KUH); Lahore, Cleghorn 1896 s.n. (E); Lahore roadside tree, A. P. Young July 26, 1888 s.n. (BM); Lahore Division, Forest Dept. Faras s.n. (E); Changa Manga, Lahore J. S. Gamble 22494 (K); ibid, S. B. Akhtar August 1956 s.n. (PFI-B); ibid, R. N. Parker April, 1926 s.n. (K); Pirawala, Ishtiaq Hussain July 1954 s.n. (PFI-B); E-3 Chagai Dist.: 20 miles from Duki on way to Yetabad, M. Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 1516 (KUH); E-5 Sibi Dist.: About 4 miles from Sibi on way to Quetta, M. Qaiser 2243, 2244 (KUH). Sibi, J. H. Lace 1889 s.n. (E); ibid, J. H. Lace 2.1.1889 s.n. (E); Jacobabad Dist.: Kashmore, Sind, C. Ritichie 1850 s.n. (E); E-6 Bhawalpur Dist.: Shaiwala, 45 miles away from Bahawalpur S. Manzoor Ashraf Zaidi 151 (KUH); F-4 Dadu Dist.: Badhapur at Manghand K. H. Rechinger 28666 (W): About 1 mile from Sann on way to Sehwan, S. A. Faruqi & M. Qaiser 2188, 2189 (KUH); Kalat Dist.: Health Centre Khuzdar, M. Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 1201 (KUH); 15 miles from Wadh on way to Porali & Bella M. Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 1168 (KUH); F-5 Nawabshah Dist.: 64 miles from Khairpur on way to Nawabshah, M. Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 3618, 3619 (KUH); Khairpur Dist.: Khairpur, Upper Sind, Richie March, 1937 s.n. (E); 2½ miles away near rice field and water, Kahirpur, S. M. H. Jafri 2417 (K); G-3 Lasbella Dist.: 1 mile from Uthal on way to Karachi, 10-11 ft, M. Qaiser, Asad Raza & Abrar Husain 712 (KUH); Qasim Garden Bella, Sultanul Abedin & M. Qaiser 7434, 7435, 7436 (KUH,E); G-4 Karachi Dist.: Karachi, A. R. Beg 25705 (K); Hyderabad Dist.: Ranipur M. Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 3615 (KUH).
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Trees or tall shrub, up to c. 13 m tall with reddish brown to grey bark, entirely glabrous. Leaves vaginate, abruptly mucronate 1.5-2 (-3) mm long, hoary due to the salt deposition from the impressed punctate glands. Racemes mostly aestival, simple or compound, 2-6 cm long, (2-) 34 (-5) mm broad, spirally curved. Flowers bisexual, subsessile, pinkish white, pedicel less than 1 mm long. Bracts vaginate, ovate, acuminate, 1.25-1.5 mm long, 0.5 mm broad. Sepals 5, free, 1.5 mm long, c. 1 mm broad, almost entire, obtuse, broadly ovate to elliptic, outer 2 somewhat smaller than the inner 3. Petals 5, filaments filiform, 2 mm long, anthers cordate, somewhat apiculate. Disc deeply 5 lobed, filaments inserted in between the lobes of the disc (mesodiscine), insertion peridiscal. Stigmas 3 or 4, discoid, styles half the length of the ovary, ovary conical, 1.75-2 mm long. Capsule pyramidal, rounded at the tip, 2.5-3.5 mm long, c. 1.5 mm broad.
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