Pedicularis pycnantha Boiss.

EXAMINED SPECIMEN. — Tajikistan. Gorge deTchoukalik, 16.VI.1881, G. Capus 1011 (P [P02977086!]). — Kohistan, Passe de Mourra, 1.VII.1881, G. Capus 1012 (P [P02977087]) .

REMARK

In Middle Asia, the species was known only from the juniper forests of the Middle Kopet-Dag, Turkmenistan (Li 1987; Nikitin & Geldikhanov 1988). Among Middle Asian species of Pedicularis, P. pycnantha is similar to P. kuljabensis Ivanina – high-mountain endemic of the Pamir-Alay and to the most widespread P. olgae Regel occurring in Pamir-Alay and Tien-Shan mountains (Li 1987).