普兰女蒿 pu lan nü hao

Artemisia senecionis Jacquemont ex Besser, Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 9: 75. 1836; Tanacetum senecionis (Jacquemont ex Besser) J. Gay ex Candolle.

Herbs, perennial, ca. 12 cm tall; stem solitary, gray-white, appressed pubescent especially below capitula. Leaves in basal rosettes and scattered along stems; basal leaves: petiole 0.8-1.5 cm; leaf blade ovate, ca. 1.2 × 1 cm, 2-pinnatisect, both surfaces gray, densely pubescent; primary lateral segments 3-paired; ultimate segments narrowly elliptic. Stem leaves similar to basal leaves, few; leaves below synflorescence pinnatifid. Synflorescence a terminal flat-topped cyme, ca. 2 cm in diam. Capitula ca. 6; peduncle densely lanate. Involucres cuneate-campanulate, 5-6 mm in diam.; phyllaries in 4 rows, abaxially lanate, scarious margin dark brown, outer phyllaries lanceolate, ca. 4 mm, middle ones narrowly lanceolate or oblanceolate, 5-5.5 mm, abaxially pubescent, inner ones similar but abaxially glabrous. Florets yellow, ca. 3.5 mm. Fl. Aug.

Desert steppes; 2000-3700 m. W Xizang (Burang) [India].