Nonea turcomanica M. Popov

Reportedly collected by Rechinger from Parachinar (Riedl, l.c. 249). The above description is based on the isotype. Similar to Nonea edgeworthii, but differing in the smaller nutlet with a smooth basal ring.

Annual up .to 30 cm or more tall, branched, pubescent-hairy; shorter hairs weak, less than 0.5 mm long, intermixed with stouter longer ones with swollen bases. Leaves ± spathulate to lanceolate or oblanceolate, 35-45 x 7-13 mm, denticulate, hairy on both surfaces with short weak hairs. Inflorescence lax, up to 11 cm long. Flowers white, subsessile, bracteate; bracts leafy but smaller. Pedicels up to 2 mm long. Calyx 7 mm long, ½ partite, accrescent and up to 10 mm in fruit, hairy; longer hairs, setose and few; lobes linear lanceolate. Corolla 8 mm long, slightly zygomorphic, tube c. 6 mm long, lobes obtuse, minutely crenulate; annulus hairy; scales hairy. Anthers c. 1.8 mm long, attached c. 4.5 mm from corolla base. Stigma 2-fid. Nutlets 2.5 mm broad, transversely ovoid, brown, back ± rugulose, minutely puberulous; basal ring with smooth raised collar c. 1 mm high.

Distribution: Iran, Turkestan, Afghanistan, Kurram (Pakistan).

Fl. Per.: March-April.