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The presence of Agathophora in Pakistan is rather surprising. The previous eastern limit never exceeded Kuwait and lower Iraq, and there are no reports of its presence in Iran, Afghanistan and Oman (Hedge, l.c.).
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Description
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Subshrub 30-40 cm, silvery white-grey. Stem woody, branched, angular, glabrous or densely papillose. Leaves erect-spreading, with apical deciduous bristle, densely woolly at axils. Flowers 3-7, in distant clusters in upper leaf axils. Perianth segments, oblong-ovate, membranous; 3 enlarging as wings in fruit. Stamens with 0.1 mm long appendage. Seeds vertical, compressed.
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Distribution
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Distribution: Same as that of the genus.
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Synonym
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Salsola alopecuroides Delile, Flore d’Egypte-explic. planches 56, tab. 21, fig. 1. 1813; Halogeton alopecuroides (Delile) Moq., Chenopod. Monogr. 161. 1840; Anabasis alopecuroides (Delile) Moq., in DC; Prodr. 13, 2: 210.1849; Halogeton alopecuroides var. papillosa Maire in Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Afr. Nord. 34: 190. 1943; Agathophora iraqensis Botsch. in Bot. Zhurn. 62: 1451. 1977.
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