多毛扁毛菊 duo mao bian mao ju

Waldheimia huegelii (Schultz Bipontinus) Tzvelev; W. stracheyana Regel.

Herbs perennial, ca. 2 cm tall, with creeping much-branched rhizomes; stems many, short, strongly fragrant. Leaves sessile; leaf blade oblong-cuneate, 8-12 × 3-5 mm, both surfaces gray-white lanate, apex 3-parted. Capitulum solitary, ca. 2 cm in diam., pedunculate or not. Involucre hemispheric, ca. 15 mm in diam.; phyllaries in 3 rows, abaxially lanate, oblong-lanceolate to oblong-linear, scarious margin broad or narrow, dark, apex obtuse or acute. Ray florets pink; lamina oblong, ca. 7 mm, apex minutely 2- or 3-toothed. Disk florets many, yellow, 5-lobed. Achenes ca. 1.5 mm, glabrous, with sessile glands. Corona scales many, apically greenish, subulate, ca. 3 mm. Fl. and fr. Aug.

Among stones; ca. 5800 m. S Xizang (Zhongba) [Tajikistan (Pamirs)].