Three New Species from Palas Valley, District Kohistan, North West Frontier Province, Pakistan Author(s): Rubina

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Three New Species fromPalas Valley,DistrictKohistan, North West FrontierProvince,Pakistan

Rubina A. Rafiq National Herbarium, National AgriculturalResearch Centre, Islamabad, Pakistan

ABSTRACT. Delphinium palasianum, Jasminum and Pseudomertensia are flavescens leptophyllum, described fromPalas Valley, DistrictKohistan, NorthWest Frontier Province(NWFP), Pakistan. Theirtaxonomic are discussed. relationships

at anthesis;petiolesup to 20 cm leaves withered dividedto base, segments long;lamina3-5-partite, coarselytoothed; uppercauline leaves withshorter petioles,lamina divided almostto base into 3-5 Inflorescences linear entiresegments. divaricately branched paniculate; bracteoleslinear, attached 2.5-3 cm Threenew species werediscovered iden- near middleof pedicel. Flowersyellow, during white tification ofplantscollectedfrom Palas Valley. Pa- long.Pedicels 3-8 cm long,retorsely pubeslas is among thoseremote areas ofthenorthwesterncent. Sepals yellow, slightly pubescent;spur 1.3has been little and 1.5 cm long,longerthansepals, pilose, cylindric, studied, Himalayawhosebotany no plant inventory of the valley exists. Botanical gibberulate below apex. Petals yellow;upperpetal in thePalas Valleywereinitiated under the obliquelybidentate, surveys pilose;lowerpetalovate-ellipauspices of the BirdLife/WWF, Himalayan Jungle tic, bearded below middle,deeply cleft.Stamens filaments widenedbelow;anthers and plantcollections were glabrous; yellow. Project.A first survey Follicles3, 1.5-1.8 made in late summer 1992, followed hairy. by morecol- Carpels denselystrigose lectionsin 1993 and 1994. cm long; styleca. 3 mmlong,suberect, divergent to densely strigosewith yellow Palas Valley, a largewatershed ofover1000 km2, at tips, slightly lies east of the River Indus in District thanbroad, scales longer Kohistan, hairs.Seeds darkbrown, Hazara Division,NWFP,amongthefront arranged. rangesof irregularly the westernmost extension of the Himalayas-the Habitat. Exposed dry stonyslopes at 2400KohistanArc. Altitudes ca. 1000 m to rangefrom 2700 m. Not verycommonin the area but occa5151 m. The topography is rugged and precipitous, amongsmall shrubson avasionallyseen growing witha numberof narrow gorges.The main river, lanche scree vegslopes in open kindof shrubby the Musha'ga,is about 75 km long and joins the coniferous ofdry etation oron themargin temperate RiverIndus at 73005'E, 35008'N. Palas has warm withlittleundergrowth. forest to hotsummers, and cold winters. Climatic figures palasianum resemblesD. denudaDelphinium are not available, but the estimated mean annual in theshape tumWallichex Hookerf. & Thomson is 900 mmto 1350 mm.Precipitation precipitation It can be easily distinguished of leaf and flowers. fallsmostly as winter snow.Palas receivessummer branchedpanicuits many-flowered, profusely sheltered from themonsoon by rains,but is somewhat and largerfollilate inflorescence, yellowflowers, to the south. by mountains to an undescribed cles. This is similar yellow-flowby H. Riedl (1991). eringspecies mentioned Delphinium palasianum Rubina Rafiq,sp. nov. TYPE: Pakistan. Kohistan: Ilobek,ca. 2400 m, leptophyllumRubina Rafiq,sp. nov. Palas valley, 19 Aug. 1993, Rubina Rafiq Jasminumn ca. above Ban-gah, TYPE: Pakistan.Kohistan: 13908 (holotype, RAW;isotypes, RAW,W). 23 Aug. 1993, Rubina 1900 m, Palas Valley, affinis denudato WallichfoRAW). Rafiq14091 (holotype, Species maxime Delphinio liorum forma seddiffert inflorescentiis ramosisflorumque alternantibus e sectione nova Species Alternifolia foliis simis paniculatismultifloris, floribus luteis et folliculis et J. affinis corolla maxime Jasmino lutea, florido Bunge 1.5-1.8 cm longis. majoribus, tubo lineari-subulatis dentibus L. calycis calycis fruticanti ab hisspeciebus sed differt sessilibus, foliis Erect perennial.Rootstock slenderrhi- longioribus, woody, 3 cmfere corollamajore linearibus, anguste loncoveredwith fibrous bases ofold leaves. indivisis, zome-like, paucioribus. ga, floribus Stems erect, terete,ca. 1 m tall, divaricately branchederect shrub ca. 1 m tall. branchedabove; branchesspreading, Profusely subglabrous above. Radical Shoots dark gray, angled or ribbed, glabrous. below,whiteretrorsely strigulose

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sessile or subsessile; blade Leaves unifoliolate, 2.5-2.8 cm long,1.2-2 mmwide,glabrous, narrowrecurved, ly linear-lanceolate, margins apex blunt, terminal, glabrous,cyapiculate. Inflorescences Pedicels 5-10 mmlong.Flowmose,1-3-flowered. fraers bright yellow, ca. 3 cm long,heterostylous, tube 1.5-2.0 mmlong;lobes Calyxglabrous, grant. linear, ca. 3 mmlong.Corollatubeca. 2.2 cm long; lobes elliptic.Stamens2, attachedto corollatube. Ovary2-loculed;ovules 2 in each locule. Fruita whenripe. berry, bilobedtwo-seeded lightbrown Habitat. Open drysteep slopes with and rocky and warmtemperate stonysoil in the subtropical area of Palas Valleyat 1500-2200 m. Knownonly from is conthe typelocality;a small population fined to a narrow balloot-Olea gorgein theQuercus zone. Jasminum is a subleptophyllum ferruginea dominantspecies growing with other associated humileL., Isodon rushrubs,such as Jasminum ex Bentham) R. Codd,Abeliatriflora gosus(Wallich Pistacia khinjuk xanthoxBrown, Stocks,Fraxinus yloides(G. Don) DC., and Cotoneaster spp. is relatedto the memJasminum leptophyllum alternate bers of sectionAlternifolia DC. in having leaves and bright yellowcorollas.Jasminum leptois theonlyspecies in thesection with conphyllum and verynarrow leaves; sistently simple,alternate all other members ofthesectionhave at least some It resembles leaves compound and broader leaflets. L. in having linJ.floridum Bungeand J.fruticans thanthecalyxtube. ear subulatecalyxteeth longer it can easily be differentiated from both However, sessile leaves, narrow, linear, species by its simple, flowers. This is the only largercorollas,and fewer wild species from Pakistanwithbright flowyellow ers and simple,alternate leaves. Pseudomertensia flavescens Rubina Rafiq, sp. nov. TYPE: Pakistan. Kohistan: TikohSar, 3000-3500 m, Palas Valley,16 June 1994, RubinaRafiq14291 (holotype, RAW;isotypes, RAW,W). affinis StewSpecies Pseudomertensiae trollii (Melchior) art& Kazmi, sed calyx dimidium vel2/3longitudinis tubi corollae filamenta corolla lutea attingens, longa, 4-5 mm velalba,folia 3-4 cmlonga, 3-5 mm lata.Flores P trollii azurei folia latiora, usquead obscure purpurei, calyx P var.trollii tubum corollae filamenta aequans, trollii 4-5 mm var. f.& longa, calyx edelbergii (Rechinger P trollii Kazmi tubo corollae filamenta 2.5 mm brevior, Riedl) longa.

into elongatedpetiole, narrowed leaves gradually ciliatemargin at base, with broader claspingshoots; blade ca. 3-3.5 cm long,3-5 mmwide, ellipticlanceolate,entire,coveredon both surfaceswith shootsmostly thinappressedtrichomes. Flowering with a singlesessile leafarisleaflessor sometimes shoots.Inflorescences base of vegetative ing from curved.Calyxditerminal, simple,short, cymose, videdto base, ca. 4 mmlong;lobes erect, narrowly Corollayellowor linear,denselyhairyat margins. white,tube 6-7 mm long,cylindric-campanulate; lobes ca. 2 mmlong,oblong,rounded, spreading; throatscales well developed,broaderthan long. ca. 4 corollatube;filaments from Stamens exserted mmlong;anthers corolla; Styleexceeding sagittate. 4, ovoid-trigonal, glabrous, capitate.Nutlets stigma darkbrown. smooth, shining, is a and habitat. Pseudomertensia Distribution small genusrepresented by 11 species endemicto of P flavesnorthwest Himalaya.Two populations censwereseen in the Palas Valley:one withwhite conifin shadyareas in temperate flowers growing from 2500 to 2900 m, and the other erous forest in open sunny flowers withyellow exposed growing 3000 to 3500 m. Otherspesubalpineslopes from in the area are P cies ofPseudomertensia growing (Riedl) Y. Nasir,P trollii(Melchior) sericophylla Stewart & Kazmi,and P moltkioides (Royleex Bentham)Kazmi. theclosely resembles Pseudomertensia flavescens & Kazmiin havStewart relatedP trollii (Melchior) than and a corollatubelonger stamens ingexserted and narrower in havingsmaller thecalyx.It differs The calyxin leaves and yellowand whiteflowers. is subequal to the corollatube var.trollii P trollii are 4-5 mmlong,whereasin vaand thefilaments f. & Riedl) Kazmi it is (Rechinger edelbergii riety are thanthe corollatube and thefilaments shorter thecalyxis ?-2/3 ca. 2.5 mmlong.In P flavescens are 4-5 mmlong. ofcorollatubeand thefilaments Riedl differs Pseudomertensia (Decaisne) parvifolia in having thecalyxequalingthecorollaand corolla and lobes acutishand erectas opposedto rounded in P flavescens. spreading

I thankGuy Duke, Project Acknowledgments. ProBirdLife/WWF Coordinator, Jungle Himalayan and for proposing ject (HJP),Islamabad(Pakistan), in Palas, and Zafar mybotanicalwork encouraging ReAltaf, (ex-)ChairmanPakistan Agricultural PARCsearch Council, Pakistan,for supporting also to myfield I am grateful Rhizomatous perennial with few ascending HJP collaboration. shoots.Branchessuberect, 3-8 cm. Basal leaves colleaguesand assistants, Mumtaz Malik, including shorter thanupperleaves, withindistinct (Wildlife)NWFP, Razwal Kohistani, petioles Conservator and Noor cauline Naeem AshrafRaja, Abdul Ghafoor, at base and claspingshoots; middle broader

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Naeen of HJP,and SikanderHayatof NARC; and I thank to the people of Palas fortheirhospitality. the directors of the herbaria, NaturalHistory Museum, Vienna, and the Royal Botanic Gardens, facilitiesto me to studythe Kew, for providing H. Riedl kindly specimensand typematerial. proand he, Ihsan Alvided the Latin descriptions, reviewedthe Shehbaz, and Guy Duke critically This paper was prepared whilestudymanuscript. on the floraof Palas at Vienna ing fora doctorate and was made possible by generousfinancial assistance from the Austriangovernment and HJP. InHJP(1991-1994) was implemented byBirdLife in partnership withthe NWFP Forest, ternational World-Wide Fisheries and WildlifeDepartment, FundforNature Con(WWF),NationalCouncilfor of Wildlife and WorldPheasantAssociaservation

tion;HJP was financed by the Britpredominantly Administration ish Overseas Development (ODA), WWF, US Fish and WildlifeService,and BiodiversitySupportProgram(a USAID-fundedjoint and ofWWF-US,the NatureConservancy, venture ResourcesInstitute). World
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