6. Arenaria festucoides Benth. in Royle, Ill. Himal. Mts. p. 81. t. 21. f. 3. 1834. Edgew. & Hook. f. in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 1:236. 1874; Ste .Cat. Vasc. Pl. W. Pak. & Kashm. 239. 1972.
SHAHINA A. GHAZANFAR & YASIN J. NASIR
Caespitose perennial, 5-10 cm, with a branched woody stock. densely leafy; flowering stems erect, pilose, ± glandular, with 1-2 pairs Leaves 6-15 mm, fasciculate, ± tinged, recurved; apex indurate, subulate, acute, base with ciliate scarious margin. Flowers terminal, solitary. Pecked as sepal, pilose. Sepals 7-9 mm, lanceolate, glabrous, apex somewhat spiny; 3-nerved, margin scarious. Petal longer than the sepals, linear-oblong. Capsule smaller than the sepals, dehiscing by 6 teeth. Seeds flat, subreniform, with long white papillae at the back.
Fl. Per.: July-August. Fr. Per. August September.
Type: Hab. Kunawar (K).
Distribution: Pakistan (Hazara & Kashmir).
Found among rocks from 3600-4300 in.
