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Velezia rigida L., Sp. Pl. ed. 1:332. 1753. Boiss., Fl. Or. 1: 478. 1867; Gorshkova in Fl. URSS. 6:869. 1936; Mizushima in Kitam., Fl. Afghan 118. 1960; A.O. Chater in Tutin et al., Fl. Eur. 1:204. 1964; Coode in Davis, Fl. Turk: 2:137. 1967; Stewart, Ann. Cat. Vasc. Pl. W. Pak. & Kashm. 256. 1972.
SHAHINA A. GHAZANFAR & YASIN J. NASIR
Herb 10-25 (-30) cm tall. Stems erect divaricately branched, rigid, glabrous at the internodes, glandular-pubescent near the nodes or glabrous throughout. Leaves 7- 14 x 0.75-1 mm, linear, apex acute, base sessile with a hyaline cilia margin; with ± glandular hairs. Flowers solitary in the axils of leaves or up to 6 in axillary fascicles. Pedicels 2-3 mm, thick, glandular-pubescent. Calyx 12-15 m narrowly cylindrical, glandular-pubescent, 15-nerved, teeth lanceolate. Petals pink, claw as long as the calyx tube, limb bifid. Capsule cylindrical, included in the calyx.
Fl. Per.: April-May.
Syntypes: Hb. Linn. 326.1 And possibly: Hb. Bursar XI: 73.
Distribution: Mediterranean region, Caucasus, Turkey, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Found in stony and gravelly places from 300-1000 m.
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