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15. Pteropyrum Jaubert & Spach, Ill. Pl. Or. 2:7. 1844; Boiss., Fl. Or. 4:1001. 1879; Hook.f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 5:23. 1886; Cooke, Fl. Pres. Bomb. 3: 2. 1958 (reprint ed.) ; Talbot, For. Fl. Bomb. Pres. & Sind 2: 370. 1911; Cullen in P.H.Davis, Fl. Turk. 2: 268. 1967; Rech.f. & Schiman-Czeika in Rech.f., Fl. Iran. 56:36. 1968.
Shrub. Leaves almost absent; alternate or fascicled, linear, oblong or spathulate, ochrea short. Flowers in fascicles, small, bisexual. Perianth segments 5-partite, petaloid, outer 2 segments finally reflexed, inner ones appressed to the fruit. Stamens 8, inserted at the mouth of the perianth; filaments filiform, hairy at base; anthers versatile. Ovary 3-angled, acuminate; styles 3; stigmas capitate. Fruit beaked, broadly 3-winged, each wing bilobed with the sinus above the middle. Seeds beaked, broad at base with eccentric embryo and oblong, short cotyledons.
A small genus with 5 species, distributed in S. and S.W. Asia. In Pakistan 2 species are reported.
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Leaves ± oblong-spathulate, 2 times longer than broad. |
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2 P. olivieri |
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