8. Gentianodes nasirii Omer, Ali & Qaiser in Pak. J. Bot. 20: 10. 1988.
SAOOD OMER
Department of Botany, University of Karachi, Karachi-75270
Annual-biennial, up to 6.0 cm high herb. Stem persent, densely clothed with leaves, simple at base, branched in upper portion. Basal leaves 2.5-3.25 x 0.6-0.8(-1.0) cm, lanceolate, margin ± cartilaginous, entire, acuminate, connate at base. Cauline leaves 0.75-15 x 0.4-0.7 cm, lanceolate, margin hyaline, denticulate or very finely so, especially at base, acuminate-long acuminate, connate at base. Inflorescence terminal, many flowered, congested cymes. Flowers tubular, sessile, 1.25-1.6 cm long. Calyx 0.9-1.3 cm long, tube 0.7-0.9 (-1.0) cm long, lobes unequl or so, two longer, rest smaller, longer: 0.3-0.6 x 0.15-0.25 cm, broadly lanceolate-ovate, margin hyaline, entire-very finely denticulate, acuminate, sinuses between lobes obtuse, middle portion green, with veins running down to base, smaller: 0.2-0.35 x 0.1-0.15 cm. Corolla 1.25-1.6 cm long, tube 0.9-1.25 cm long, lobes 0.2-0.4 x 0.15-0.25 cm, obovate-ovate, entire, obtuse, plicae 0.1-0.2 x 0.075-0.125 cm, lanceolate, entire, acute. Stamens 5, filaments long, thread l ike, adnate below middle of corolla, reaching little more than middle of corolla, anthers dorsifixed and versatile, sagittate, bilobed. Ovary 0.4-0.6 x 0.175-0.25 cm, oblanceolate, style present, stigma bifid, coiled, ± papillose. Nectaries at base of ovary. Capsule not seen.
Type: Hazara, rd. to Mt. Makra, ± 11000 ft., Kaghan, 24.6.1978, Y. Nasir & Meijer 8854 (KUH!).
B-8 Kashmir: Thajiwas, 11000 ft., 7.6.1971, Robson 2017 (BM).
Distribution: Endemic (Hazara-Kashmir).
Nasir & Meijer 8854 is also present in RAW. But this specimen is a mixture of Gentianodes eumarginata Omer and Gentianodes nasirii Omer et al. However, the annotations of the two la bels also differ in several respects i.e. altitude, habitat and flower colour.
Allied to Gentianodes eumarginata Omer but differs from it in h aving unequal calyx lobes, biennial-perennial(?) habit, cauline leaves provided in between by smaller leaves, corolla slightly swollen in the middle, filaments inserted slightly below the middle and anthers versatile.
