7. Seriphidium sieberi (Besser) K. Bremer & Humphries ex Y. R. Ling, Bull. Bot. Lab. N.-E. Forest. Inst., Harbin. 11(4): 18. 1991.
Artemisia sieberi Besser in Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 9: 80. 1836; DC., Prodr. 6: 101. 1837; Poljak. in Schischk. & Bobrov., Fl. USSR 26: 712. 1995 (Engl. Tr.); Podlech in Rech. f., Fl. Iran. 158: 203. tt. 194, 195, 221 fig. 10. 1986; Mand., Fl. East. Saudi Arab. 303. 1990; Ghafoor & Al-Turki in Chaudhary, Fl. King. Saudi Arab. 2(3): 184. Pl. 65 a. 2000; Jongbl. et al. in Ann. Check-list Pl. UAE 34. 2000; A glomerata non Ledeb. 1812: Sieber ex Spreng, Syt. Veg. 3: 489. 1826; A. herba-alba Asso var. laxiflora Boiss., Fl. Or. 3: 365. 1875; A. dumosa Poljakov in Not. Syst. Leningrad 16: 425. 1954; A. herba-alba auct. non Asso: R. R. Stewart, Ann. Cat. Vasc. Pl. W. Pak. & Kashm. 716: 1972 – pro parte; A. maritima non L.: Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 3:323. 1881 – pro parte; R. R. Stewart, l. c. 717 – pro parte.
A basally woody, ± tufted shrublet with several, rigid, erect, greyish-hairy to partly glabrescent, straw-colored, below divaricately branched, up to 35 cm tall stems from upright, thick, branched rootstock. Leaves greyish-hairy to glabrescent; Basal and lower petiolate, rotundate, 8 – 16 x 6 – 12 mm, bipinnatisect into flat, lanceolate, 1.5 – 3 x 0.5 – 1 mm, obtuse ultimate segments; upper and middle stem leaves subsessile to sessile, basally auriculate, soon deciduous; uppermost in floral region palmatisect, subtending floral branches, with lanceolate obtuse lobes or linear, entire. Capitula homogamous, sessile, erect, oblong to narrowly ovate, 3 – 3.5 x 1 – 1.25 mm, solitary and remote or 2 – 4 together in a glomerule in large, broadly pyramidate, panicle with horizontally or sometimes patent primary and seconday branches. Receptacle conical, glabrous. Involucre 6-7-serate, phyllaries imbricate, outermost very small, broadly elliptic-ovate, c. 1.5 mm long, green, densely puberulous, inner oblong-oblanceolate, 2 – 2.5 mm long, ± glabrous, broadly scarious on margins, obtuse. Florets 3 – 4 (-5), bisexual. Cypselas obovate, c. 1.25 mm long.
Fl. Per.: September-November.
Type: In Monte Gallorum (Herodio), F. W. Sieber s. n. (M, W).
Rocky terrain with large pebbles and coarse sand on mountain slopes in Balochistan province; Distribution: Central and South West Asia.
This species is being recorded for the first time from the flora area.