小亮苞蒿 xiao liang bao hao

Artemisia mairei f. latifolia Pampanini.

Herbs, perennial, 40-60 cm tall, erect, yellowish pubescent. Lower and middle stem leaves sessile; leaf blade ovate, 1.5-3 × 1-2 cm, pinnatisect; segments 2 pairs, subulate or linear-subulate, 10-15 × ca. 1 mm. Uppermost leaves and leaflike bracts 3-sect or entire. Synflorescence a narrow to broad panicle, branches ascending, sometimes reduced to simple racemes, sometimes producing secondary panicles and broad synflorescence. Capitula spreading, subsessile. Involucre subglobose, (1.5-)2 mm in diam.; phyllaries glabrous. Marginal female florets 2 or 3(?-7). Disk florets 3-7, male. Achenes minute. Fl. and fr. Aug-Nov.

● Slopes, roadsides; 2100-3600 m. Yunnan.