厚毛扁毛菊 hou mao bian mao ju

Waldheimia vestita (J. D. Hooker & Thomson ex C. B. Clarke) Pampanini.

Herbs, perennial, 4-6 cm tall, with creeping woody rhizomes; stems many, erect; most parts densely and thickly yellowish or gray-white lanate. Leaves sessile; leaf blade cuneate, 1-1.5 × 0.4-0.5 cm, apex 3-lobed. Capitulum solitary at apex, shortly pedunculate. Involucre hemispheric, ca. 1.5 cm in diam.; phyllaries in 4 or 5 rows, ovate to oblong, 4-6 mm, abaxially lanate, scarious margin deep brown. Ray florets pink; lamina broadly elliptic. Disk florets yellow, 5-lobed. Achenes ca. 2 mm, with sessile glands. Pappus many, bristlelike, deplanate, 2-3 mm, apically brownish. Fl. and fr. Aug-Sep.

Mountain slopes; 5000-5300 m. S Xizang (Tingri) [India, Pakistan].