dcsimg

Description

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An erect, up to 90 cm, much branched herb with hairy twigs. Leaves on 4-20 (-25) mm long petioles; lamina elliptic-ovate to lanceolate, (1-) 1.5-6 (-12) x (0.6-) 1-2.5 (-6) cm, thinly soft pubescent to glabrate, basally cuneate, entire, acuminate. Flowers pink with purplish tinge, 1.2-1.5 cm long, in terminal and axillary clustered cymes; bracts variable in shape, obovate, elliptic-oblong or linear-lanceolate, 5-10 mm long, thinly pubescent, 1 or 3-nerved, cuneate entire, obtuse to ± acute, mucronate or not, ciliate, cilia white, multicellular or absent; bracteoles linear-lanceolate, nearly as long as calyx lobes. Calyx lobes linear, 6-7 mm long. Capsule clavate, ± stipitate, c. 6 mm long, puberulous or glabrate. Seeds verrucose.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
bibliographic citation
Flora of Pakistan Vol. 0: 23 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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Afghanistan, Himalaya (Kashmir to Bhutan), India, Thailand, Indo-China, W. 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: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangla Desh, India to Indo-China and W. China.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
bibliographic citation
Flora of Pakistan Vol. 0: 23 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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Elevation Range

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500-2000 m
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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.
source
Annotated Checklist of the Flowering Plants of Nepal @ eFloras.org
author
K.K. Shrestha, J.R. Press and D.A. Sutton
project
eFloras.org
original
visit source
partner site
eFloras