Artemisia leucotricha H.Krasch. ex Ladyg. in Nov. Syst. Pl. Vasc. Leningrad 1965: 246. fig. 1. 1965; Podlech in Rech. f., l. c. 194. tt. 182, 220. figs. 4, 5. 1986; A. lehmaniana ssp. leucotricha Krasch. ex Poljakov in Schischk. & Bobrov, Fl. USSR 26: 622. 1961- nom. nud.

Perennial, basally woody herb with ascending to erect, mildly costate-striate, brownish-yellow, densely arachnoid hairy to glabrescent, hardly branched, 15 – 35 cm tall, several sterile and fertile stems from obliquely horizontal stolon-like rootstock. Leaves greyish-white, with arachnoid tomentum, lower stem leaves with up to 2 cm long petiole, lamina broadly ovate-rotundate, deeply bipinnatisect into linear, 2 – 5 x 0.5 – 0.8 mm, obtuse segments; middle and upper stem leaves short petioled, basally auriculate, gradually smaller in size, uppermost in floral region lanceolate, entire, sometimes with basal auricles. Capitula rusty brown, sessile, ovate, 3.5 – 4 x c. 2.5 mm, in ± globose glomerules of 3 – 6 (-10), in interrupted, c. 2 cm wide spike or panicle with c. 1 – 2 cm long erect, appressed branches bearing terminal glomerules. Involucre 3-seriate, phyllaries imbricate, outermost ovate, c. 2 x 1.25 mm, densely arachnoid tomentose outside, inner ones oblong, c. 3 x 2 mm, sparsely arachnoid, widely brownish-scarious on margins. Florets 9 – 15, bisexual, with tubular, c. 1.5 mm long, yellow corolla.

Fl. Per.: August-September.

Type: Tadzhikistan, Monte Pamir occidentalis, Systema fl. Gunt. in Valle fl. Tokuzbulak, 3850 m, G. Ladygina 10964 (LE).

Dry hillside slopes in fine pebbly soil besides glaciers in the subalpine zone from 3000 to 4500 m; Distribution: Soviet Union (Pamir), N. E. Afghanistan and N. W. Pakistan (Chitral, Gilgit).