多花横断山绿绒蒿 duo hua heng duan shan lü rong hao

Plants not more than 25 cm tall, densely sericeous on stems, leaves, and pedicels. Stem short, not exceeding 10 cm. Leaves elliptic to oblanceolate, 3-veined only at base, otherwise pinnately veined. Bracts like leaves, in a single whorl just above basal leaf rosette. Flowers erect to suberect, yellow, to 9 cm in diam. Ovary densely sericeous; styles short but distinct, 2-5 mm. Capsule barrel-shaped, densely hairy.

● Rocky slopes, mountain moorlands. NW Yunnan.