Ainsliaea DC.

Herbs, perennial, subscapigerous; rootstock thick, erect, crown silky. Leaves radical, some alternate. Heads solitary or 2 - 3-fascicled on the erect scape, homogamous, discoid, small, sessile or very shortly peduncled. Flowers hermaphrodite, all fertile. Corolla 5-partite. Involucral bracts many-seriate, rigid, often pungent, imbricate; outer ones shorter. Anther bases sagittate, rounded at tips, hairy. Achenes oblanceolate, somewhat compressed, ribbed or not. Pappus uniseriate, feathery.

China and Japan; ca 10 species, 3 in India, in the Himalayan region.

KEY TO THE SPECIES

1a. Petiole distinctly winged; achenes 10-ribbed

3. Ainsliaea latifolia

b. Petiole not winged; achenes. indistinctly or distinctly ribbed

2

2a. Leaves orbicular-cordate or triangular, sinuate-lobed

2. Ainsliaea aptera

b. Leaves oblanceolate

1. Ainsliaea angustifolia

List of Lower Taxa