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Gentiana cachemirica

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Authors: Decne.  

Botanical Description

with few to many radiating, decumbent stems 10-15cm long. Stem leaves in pairs, ovate, 8-18mm long, glaucous; basal leaves larger and greener. Flowers narrowly funnel-shaped, about 2.5cm or more long with wide-spreading pale blue lobes and prominent, toothed folds between, solitary or in twos and threes, late summer to autumn. Pakistan to Kashmir at 2400-4000m, generally in rock crevices.