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Variable as to the plant size. Can be easily distinguished by the fimbriate petals. Found up to 1800 m.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
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Flora of Pakistan Vol. 0: 58 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Flora of Pakistan @ eFloras.org
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S. I. Ali & M. Qaiser
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Description

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A ± erect branched annual. Roots staining purplish. Stem and branches with thin antrorsc hairs up to 1.6 mm long, some arising from a bulbous base. Basal leaves 25-45 x 4-7 mm, cauline smaller, lanceolate, obtuse, entire to ± revolute, midrib impressed above, both surfaces antrorsely hairy. Inflorescence simple, up to 8 cm long, dense flowered. Flowers heterostylous, bracteate; bracts leaf like, up to 12 mm long, ciliate. Pedicels up to 1 mm long. Calyx 5-partite, antrorsely hairy; hairs thin, arising from a swollen base; lobes lanceolate-obtuse. Corolla yellow, vinous to the outside; tube 15-18 mm long; limb 10-15 mm broad, the lobes fimbriate. Styles slender, forked. Long styles subexerted. Anthers ± 2 mm long, those from long styled flowers attached 2/3 rd from the corolla tube base. Stigmas 2, compressed. Nutlets c. 3 mm long, broadly ovoid, beaked, rugose-tuberculate, yellowish-green.
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cc-by-nc-sa-3.0
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
bibliographic citation
Flora of Pakistan Vol. 0: 58 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
source
Flora of Pakistan @ eFloras.org
editor
S. I. Ali & M. Qaiser
project
eFloras.org
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Distribution

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Distribution: Iran, Afghanistan, Baluchistan (Pakistan).
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
bibliographic citation
Flora of Pakistan Vol. 0: 58 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
source
Flora of Pakistan @ eFloras.org
editor
S. I. Ali & M. Qaiser
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eFloras.org
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Flower/Fruit

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Fl. Per.: April-May.
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cc-by-nc-sa-3.0
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
bibliographic citation
Flora of Pakistan Vol. 0: 58 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
source
Flora of Pakistan @ eFloras.org
editor
S. I. Ali & M. Qaiser
project
eFloras.org
original
visit source
partner site
eFloras