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Published In: Linnaea 6: 88. 1831. (Linnaea) Name publication detailView in BotanicusView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

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Annual, whitish pubescent  herbs with simple, entire to marginally ± spinulose, linear-oblong leaves. Capitula single-flowered, each capitulum surrounded by a tuft of plumose, white hairs, aggregated in hemispherical compound heads (compound capitula) surrounded by a common involucre of foliaceous phyllaries as long as head or ± longer.  Common Receptacle small, ± conical, glabrous, epaleate. Phyllaries free, multiseriate, foliaceous, densely woolly, outer pinnatisect, bristly, inner ones linear-lanceolate. Florets pink, fading to white, solitary. Corolla actinomorphic, tube short, limb cylindrical, 5-partite, lobes linear. Anthers shortly barbate at base, on free filaments.  Style pilose below divergent stigmatic branches. Cypselas ellipsoid-oblong to  ± obovoid, roughly  4-angled, densely hairy. Pappus uniseriate, of basally connate, short, subulate, finely dentate scales.

A monotypic genus, distributed in South Western and Central Asia. A

 
 
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