19. Ajania Poljakov, Bot. Mater. Gerb. Bot. Inst. Komarova Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R. 17: 419. 1955; K. Bremer & Humphries in Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Lond. (Bot.) 23(2):115. 1993; K. Bremer, Asteraceae: 456. 1994.
Tanacetum Sect. Ajania (Poljakov) Podlech in Rech. f., Fl. Iran. Comp. IV. 158: 125. 1986.
Perennial herbs or subshrubs with alternate, palmati- or pinnatisect, lobed, serrate or rarely entire leaves. Capitula small, numerous, disciform, in corymbs or rarely solitary. Involucre vase-shaped, phyllaries irregularly 3-4-seriate, imbricate, membranous margined. Receptacle convex to obtusely conical, bald. Marginal female florets uniseriate, with ± dorsally compressed, stiffly 2-4-toothed corolla tube. Disc-florets with sessile glanded, 5-lobed, abruptly broadened in upper half, glabrous corolla tube. Anthers with ± triangular terminal appendage. Style branches linear, truncate. Cypselas obovoid, inconspicuously 5-6-ribbed, thin-walled, generally with myxogenic cells in rows. Pappus absent.
A small genus comprising 34 spceies, mainly segregated from Artemisia, and distributed in China, Central Asia, Japan, Afghanistan, Pakistan. Represented in our area by rwo species.
