Artemisia oliveriana J. Gay ex Besser in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 9: 77. 1837; DC., Prodr. 6: 101. 1838; Podlech in Rech. f., Fl. Iran. Comp. IV. 158: 207. t. 198. 1986; A. serotina Bunge, Beitr. Fl. Russl. 165. 1852; A. sogdiana Bunge, l. c. 167 et l. c. 343; A. maracandica Bunge, l. c. 169 et l. c. 345; A. fragrans Willd. var. maracandica (Bunge) Boiss., Fl. Or. 3: 366. 1875; A. herba-alba auct. non Gay: Boiss., Fl. Or. 3: 365. 1875 pro parte; Rech. f., Symb. Afgh. 2: 51. 1955; A. herba-alba Asso var. densiflora Boiss., l. c. 365- pro parte; A. flavifolia Gilli in Feddes Repert. 68: 94. 1963.

A densely arachnoid-tomentose to glabrescent or ± glabrous, suffrutescent shrublet with 40 – 60 (-80) cm tall, greenish-yellow or brownish tinged yellow, erect, branched stems from woody, much branched rootstock. Basal and lower stem leaves long-petioled, oblong-ovate, 4 – 5 x 1 – 2.5 cm, bipinnatisect into linear, 2 – 4 x 0.5 x 1 mm, shortly acuminate ultimate segments; middle and upper stem leaves subsessile to sessile, oblong, gradually smaller, basally auriculate; uppermost in the floral region linear, entire. Capitula sessile or shortly peduncled, oblong to narrowly ovate, 3 – 4 x c. 1.5 mm, remote or congested towards apices, in broadly pyramidate panicle with 8 – 20 (-35) cm long, ± spreading to obliquely erect branches. Involucre 5-6-seriate, phyllaries imbricate, outermost very small, ovate, densely puberulous outside, innermost 2 series oblong, c. 2.5 – 3 mm, almost glabrous, scarious and hyaline margined. Florets 5 – 7, greenish-yellow.

Fl. Per.: August-September.

Type: In Persia septentrionalis inter Teheran et Ispahan, 1822, G. A. Oliver s. n. (G-Boiss., P).

Sandy-clay soils on small hills north of Juniper zone; Distribution: Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia (Turcomania) and Pakistan.