Published In:
Dissertatio inauguralis botanico medica de Artemisiis 17, 30. 1775. ( Artemis.) 
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(Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
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Acceptance
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Accepted
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(Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
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Synonym Text:
A. sacrorum Ledeb. in Mem. Acad. Sci. Petersb. 5: 571. 1805; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 3: 326. 1881; R. R. Stewart, Ann. Cat. Vasc. Pl. W. Pak. & Kashm. 719. 1972; Pamp. in Nuouv. Giorn. Bot. Ital. 36: 387. 1929 pro parte; A. vestita Wall. ex DC., Prodr. 6: 106. 1938; Hook. f., l. c. 326. 1882; R. R. Stewart, l.c. 720; A. gmelini Web. ex Stechm. var. vestita Nakai, Fl. Kor. 2: 31. 1911; Fu Hiang Chian, l. c.
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Flower/Fruit:
Fl. Per.: September-November.
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Type:
Holotype: Described from Len & Angaria (B). Isotype (LE).
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Distribution:
Distribution: Mongolia, China, Russia (W. & E. Siberia, Far East), and Indo-Pakistan subcontinent (N. W. Himalayas).
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Map Location:
A-7 Gilgit, Rawat to Yasin, Sept. 28, 1954, Dr F. Schmid s. n. (RAW; MICH); B-7 Swat Dist.: Mingora, ± 3000 ft., 10.8.1952, R. R. Stewart 24228 (RAW); Ibid, 16.9.1976, Dilawar & Naeem Shah s. n. (GH); Hazara Dist.: Baltal, ± 3200 ft., erect herb, fls. yellow, common, 8.10.1976, Muqarrab Shah & Dilawar 121 (GH); Rawalpindi Dist.: Mera to Marri, 5-7000 ft., 10-15 Nov. 1856, Schlagintweit s. n. (RAW); B-8 Kashmir, Srinagar waterworks, 34° 4.60´ N, 75° 49´ E, 6000 ft., Aug. 25, 1917, R. R. Stewart 3356 (PH & KUH); Drained Lake basin of Kashmir, environs of Srinigar, within a circle of 8 miles radius, 2-2- October 1856, Schlagintweit s. n. (M); Gandarbal, 1800 m, along foothills, 25.9.1981, G. Hassan Dar 3207 (KUH); Baltal, sandy slopes, 3000 m, 2.9.1982, G. Hassan Dar 3903 (KUH); Kashmir, Shankaracharya hill, 1830 m, Sept. 16, 1962, B. M. Wadhwa & J. N. Vohra 971 (CAL); Kashmir, Bellow, s. n. (CAL); Tso Kar, Rupshu, Kashmir, 14000 ft., 10-20 August 1933 Walter Koelz 6620 (MICH); Kashmir, Regio temp. 6-10000 ft., Thomas Thomson s. n. (L & M); N. W. Himalays, Dec. 1937, P. N. Kohli 173 (RAW); C-7 Sakesar, 15.9.1954, Iftikhar Ahmed s. n. (RAW); Kashmir, Rajauri, Uri across the Punch Pass via Kahuta to Punch, 5-9000 ft., 6-9 November 1856, Schlagintweit s. n. (M).
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Perennial shrub with several, erect, woody, strigose, brownish-grey, upright, 50-100 cm tall, finely sulcate stems from woody, upright 2.5-3 cm thick rootstock. Leaves glabrous, green and punctate glandular above, densely appressed albescent arachnoid below; basal petiolate, lamina oblong-ovate, 3 – 8 (-15) x 1-6 (-8) cm, bipinnatisect into lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, less than 1 mm wide, serrate or entire, acute ultimate segments; middle and upper stem leaves shortly petioled to sessile, 2.5 – 3.5 cm long, 1-2-pinnatisect; uppermost in the floral region uni-pinnatisect or linear-entire. Capitula heterogamous, shortly recurved pedunculate, subglobose, 2 – 2.5 x 2.5 – 3 mm, nodding in a narrow to wide, oblong-pyramidate, 20 – 40 x 6 – 25 cm, densely congested panicle with 6 – 12 cm long, ± ascending to somewhat patent primary branches. Involucre 4-5-seriate; outermost phyllaries triangular-ovate, c. 1.25 – 1.5 mm long, strigose outside, narrowly membranous margined, acute; median oblong-elliptic, c. 2 x 0.8 mm, green midrib, broadly membranous margined, hoary outside, obtuse; innermost membranous-hyaline, elliptic, slightly smaller than median, obtuse. Receptacle conical, glabrous. Florets 25-30, yellow, all fertile; marginal florets 10 – 12, with narrowly tubular, c. 1 mm long, glandulose, bidentate corolla; disc florets 15-18 with conical, c. 1.75 mm long, glandular, 5-toothed corolla. Cypselas narrowly oblong-oval, c. 1.5 mm long, finely striate, brown.
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