团伞女蒿 tuan san nü hao

Herbs, perennial, stemless; taproot long. Leaves in a single dense basal rosette around synflorescence; leaf blade narrowly ovate, elliptic, or narrowly elliptic, 1-1.5 × 0.5-0.8 cm, 2-pinnatisect, both surfaces densely villous; primary lateral segments 2-4-paired; ultimate segments narrowly elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate. Synflorescence a dense hemispheric glomerule, ca. 2 cm in diam. Capitula many. Involucres cuneate-campanulate, ca. 6 mm in diam.; phyllaries in 3 rows, abaxially villous, scarious margin dark brown; outer phyllaries lanceolate, 5-7 mm, middle and inner ones oblanceolate, 4-5 mm. Florets yellow, ca. 3.5 mm. Fl. Aug.

● Alpine meadows; ca. 4600 m. Xizang (Nyêmo).