HARALD RIEDL and YASIN J. NASIR
Naturhistorisches Museum, Botanische Abteilung, Wien, Austria.
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National Herbarium, Pakistan Agricultural Research Council, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Aquilegia cymosa Qureshi & Chaudhri
Stem hairy. Sepals 7-12 mm, acutish. Spur 4-7 mm long. Follicles 13-15 mm. Style 5-7 mm.
Type: Mussoorie range, Northern India (LIV).
B-7 Swat: Bishigram, R.R. Stewart & A. Rahman 25005 (RAW), Hazara: Changla Gali, R.R. Stewart 9115 (RAW), id., M. Nath 301,483 (RAW), below F.R. House, Thandiani, E. & Y. Nasir 9134 (RAW), id., Y. Nasir 10909 (RAW), Dunga Gali, R.R. Stewart 455 (RAW), Ayubia, M.A. Siddiqui & Y. Nasir 5986 (RAW), Nathia Gali, 8000', June-July 1959, R.R. Stewart s.n. (RAW), Kishenganga vy., coll. ignot. no. 1423 (KUH), Uri-Poonch, R.R. Stewart13997 (RAW), C-7 Islamabad & Rawalpindi: Sunny Bank, 20.6.1940, S.S. Sahni s.n. (RAW).
Distribution: Mussoorie eastward to Kashmir, Chitral.
Bruehl gives a different spelling for the name of the variety as Aquilegia vulgaris L. var. massariensis (Bruehl in J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 60(½):311.1893). Munz (op.cit.) considers var. cunninghami Bruehl, 1.c. as probably identical with var. mussooriensis. Only the length of the petal differentiates it from the description of Aquilegia cymosa as given by the authors.
