Must be endemic. Great! DSRawat Pantnagar On Sunday, July 7, 2013 7:59:20 AM UTC+5:30, Gurcharan Singh wrote: > > Another species described by me in 1976. I have yet to capture this in my > camera, so enclosing photo of herbarium sheet. The isotype is here: > > http://plants.jstor.org/specimen/ny00167813?history=true > > Reproduced from my book > > *Crepis dachhigamensis* G. Singh,* Forest Flora of Srinagar, *P. 127*, *Fig. > 7*, *1976. > > Species *Crepis sancta *L. subsimilis sed distat: folia radiculia 2-4, > raceptaculum nudus, achaenia rigida longioribus, bractae rigida alevato > costatus, longioribus. > > Planta annua, caule simplici vel parce ramosa. Folia radicalia 2-4, > petiolata, lamina oblanceolata vel lanceolata, pilosa, margine dentibus > paucis; caulina pauca, lanceolata, 4-10 cm longa, basiauriculis acutis. > Capitulis 10-15 mm in diametro, longe pedunculatis, pedunculus subglabris; > raceptaculum nudum. Involucrum 2 seriatum, bracteis externis vix 2-3 mm > longis, internis 8-14 mm longis, fructicandi tempore saepe ad 18 mm, costa > elevata. Flores ligulati lutei. Achaenia anguste cylindrica, versus apicem > angustata, rigida, 7-10 mm longa. Pappus album, mollis, 5-8 mm longum. > > Holotypus: In dedivibus supra Harwan, Kashmir, alt. 1900 m: Gurcharan > Singh No. 623. In Herbario Departmenti Phytologiae, Universitas > Kashmiriensis, Srinagar conservatur. > > Annual herb, simple or sparsely branched. Radical leaves 2-4, oblanceolate > or lanceolate, hairy, petioled, margins with few sharp teeth; cauline > leaves few, lanceolate, lanceolate, 4-10 cm long, base with acute auricles. > Heads on long almost naked branched peduncles, 10-15 mm across, ligulate. > Involucre bracts 2 seriate, outer hardly 2-3 mm long, inner linear, 8-14 mm > long, elongating in fruiting to often 18 mm, midrib prominent and raised, > raceptacle naked. Florets ligulate, yellow. Achenes narrowly cylindrical, > narrowed above, rigid, 7-10 mm long. Pappus soft, white, 5-8 mm long, hairs > simple. > > Holotype: Slopes above Harwan, Kashmir, alt. 1900 m: Gurcharan Singh No. > 623. Deposited in the Herbarium of Botany Department, Kashmir University , > Srinagar. > > > > > > -- > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Retired Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 > http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >
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