1. Epigeal portions collected in June 1978 from Karaj, 40 km west of Tehran, Iran, and shade dried.A voucher specimen (No. 86) is on deposit in the herbarium of the Department of Pharmacognosy, University of Tehran, asCentaurea balsamita Lam.
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