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Oxytropis microphylla (Pall.) DC.

Description

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Perennial herb. Root thick and woody. Aerial stem absent. Leaves stipulate, and leaf bases covered with white or yellowish woolly hairs; leaf up to 18 cm long, petiole up to 5.5 cm long, glandular or eglandular, pilose, hairs white or yellowish. Leaflets alternate, opposite, mostly whorled, subsessile, linear-oblong, up to 8 mm long, c. 2-4 mm broad, entire, edges inflexed, obtuse, gland dotted and pilose. Flowers in a peduncled raceme, bracteate, bracts c. 4-5 mm long, gland dotted and pilose; pedicel c. 1-1.5 mm. Calyx c. 10-11 mm long, pilose and beset with brown glandular tubercles, teeth c. 2-2.5 mm. Corolla pale blue. Vexillum c. 19-21 mm. Fruit stipe c. 1 mm long, fruit c. 15-21 mm long, c. 4.5 mm, board tip acuminate, glabrous to subglabrous, glandular tuberculate, almost completely bilocular, c. 20-30-seeded.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
bibliographic citation
Flora of Pakistan Vol. 0: 109 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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Distribution

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W. Himalaya to Mongolia, S.E. Siberia and S. China.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
bibliographic citation
Annotated Checklist of the Flowering Plants of Nepal Vol. 0 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Annotated Checklist of the Flowering Plants of Nepal @ eFloras.org
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K.K. Shrestha, J.R. Press and D.A. Sutton
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Distribution

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Distribution: Kashmir; India (N. Punjab); Russia (Dauria); Mongolia; Tibet, China (Shensi).
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
bibliographic citation
Flora of Pakistan Vol. 0: 109 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Flora of Pakistan @ eFloras.org
editor
S. I. Ali & M. Qaiser
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eFloras.org
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Elevation Range

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2700-4100 m
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
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Annotated Checklist of the Flowering Plants of Nepal Vol. 0 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Annotated Checklist of the Flowering Plants of Nepal @ eFloras.org
author
K.K. Shrestha, J.R. Press and D.A. Sutton
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eFloras.org
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Flower/Fruit

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Fl. Per.: June-September.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
bibliographic citation
Flora of Pakistan Vol. 0: 109 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