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4. Aquilegia moorcroftiana Wall. ex Royle, Illustr. Bot. Himal. Mount. 1:55. 1834. Munz in Gentes Herbarium 7:8.1946; Tamura in Kitamura, Pl. Afghan. 121.1960; Stewart, Ann. Cat. Vasc. Pl. W. Pak. & Kashm. 262. 1972; Qureshi & Chaudhri, Pak. Syst. 4(1-2):24.1988.
HARALD RIEDL and YASIN J. NASIR
Naturhistorisches Museum, Botanische Abteilung, Wien, Austria. and National Herbarium, Pakistan Agricultural Research Council, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Aquilegia vulgaris subsp. moorcroftiana (Wall.) BruehlAquilegia vulgaris subsp. pyrenaica Hook.f. & Thoms.Aquilegia vulgaris subsp. viscosa Hook.f. & Thoms.Aquilegia vulgaris var. moorcroftiana (Wall.) Aitch.
Rootstock slender covered with remains of old petioles in its upper part. Stems 20-40 (-80) cm high, ± branched, with a few spreading hairs in the lower, with dense, usually glandular hairs in the upper part below the flowers. Basal leaves bi-rarely tri-ternate with long petioles. Leaflets with short petioles, 1-3 cm long and wide, obovate to cuneate, 2-3-fid to nearly the base, glabrous above, usually paler and slightly pubescent beneath. Cauline leaves reduced in size and partition from the base upwards, uppermost leaves bract-l ike, 1-2 cm long with 1-3 lanceolate lobes. Flowers usually ± nodding. Sepals pale-purplish to blue-purple, 13-18 x 6-8 mm, acute or obtuse, ± puberulous. Lamina of sepals blue, sometimes with yellowish or cream, 10-13 mm long, obovate, spur purplish, straight or slightly curved, 12-17 (-22)mm long, 2.5-3.5 mm wide at the base. Staminodes lanceolate, 6 mm long. Follicles 5-6, 16-24 mm long, pubescent.
Distribution: Widely distributed in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kashmir, Himalaya, as far as Tibet; more common in the eastern part of the area.
Lower Taxa
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