(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:
RUBINA AKHTER
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Flower/Fruit:
Fl. Per.: April-July.
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Type:
Type: The values about Adwaanae, Hardwicke (K).
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Distribution:
Distribution: Afghanistan, Pakistan Himalaya eastward to India, Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet, W. & C. China.
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Comment/Acknowledgements:
One of the commonest and largest species with a wide distribution, growing in dry sunny places between 750-3000 m in N.W. Himalaya, Suliman range and Safed Koh.
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Illustration:
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Map Location:
B–8 Gilgit: Rupal Nullah, ± 8000', R. R. & I. D. Stewart 22849 (RAW); B–6 Kurram Vy., near Shalozan, shrub with yellow flowers, Y. Nasir & M. A. Siddiqi 8249 (RAW); Chitral: Brir, ± 5000', 27.7.1954, M. A. Siddiqi & A. Rehman s.n. (RAW); Bombrait, ± 5000', M. A. Siddiqi & A. Rehman 26802 (RAW,); id., A. R. Beg 1509 (RAW); B-7 Swat: Bahrein 6-7000', R. R. Stewart 24492 (RAW); Kalam ± 6000', R. R. Stewart 24665 (RAW); Hazara Dist.: Kaghan Vy., ± 8200', Bowes Lyon 8013- (RAW); Sandoz Farm, ± 9000', Shogran, E. Nasir & M. A. Siddiqi 4475 (RAW); Naran, Kaghan Vy., c. 8000', Hassan Din 3089 (RAW); Near Thai, Abbottabad, ± 4000', Zaffar Ali 3836 (RAW); Abbottabad, Narindar Kaur 50 (RAW); 2 miles from Malakandi on way to Kaghan, Saood Umar et al. 671 (KUH); Dunga Gali, Y. Nair & Khan 9572 (RAW); Changla Gali, F. Grohmann 7005 (RAW); below Changla Gali, c. 2500 m, Y. Nasir & Nazir 10250 (RAW), G–7 Rawalpindi & Islamabad List.: Jhika gall, c. 7000', Murree hills, Maqbool Ahmed 7428 (RAW); nr. Rosenheim, Murree, c. 6000', R. J. Rodin 5306 (RAW); Murree, 15.6.59, S. I. Ali s.n. (KUH); Murree, 7000', Sultanul Abedin 2873 (KUH); Margalla top, c.1000 m, above Islamabad, Y. Nasir & Nazir 10297 (RAW); Islamabad Nursery, cultivated, 10.5.1968, Saida Qureshi s.n. (KUH); Baluchistan: D–4 Urak, c. 6000', Quetta, R. R. Stewart s.n. (RAW); Wall Tang, Quetta, Saood Omar & A. Ghafoor 1788 (KUH); Wali Tangi, Quetta, Saood Omar & A. Ghafoor 1788 (KUH); Wali Tangi, c. 1850 m, Quetta, 8.5.1985, Qutubuddin & M. Ashfaq s.n. (RAW); Ziarat, Quetta, Asghar Ali 232 (RAW); id., G.M. Khattak 89 (RAW); id., c. 8000', Z. Ali 5699 (RAW); id., G. M. Khattak 19 (RAW); id., Nazim & Iqbal Dar 358 (KUH); D–5 Fort Sandman, Shingarh, c. 8500', M. Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 1571 (KUH).
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A large shrub or small tree up to 6 m tall, with hollow pith and pubescent to villous branches. Leaves 2-5(-8) x 1-3(-4) cm, ovate or broadly elliptical, pubescent to villous on both surfaces; petiole short, 3-5-mm. Flowers in pairs in the axils of old leaves, hairy, shorter than calyx. Bracteoles c. 1/3 the length of calyx tube, connate in pairs, pubescent-villous, ciliate, teeth ciliate. Corolla c. 18-20 mm, densely hairy without and within; tube slightly gibbous at the base, 2-tipped, white, fading to yellow. Berries in pairs, sessile or subsessile, ovoid, free, with persistent calyx lobes, white.
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