Artemisia indica
Willd., Sp. Pl. 3: 1846. 1803. A. grata Wallich ex Bess. in
Nouv. Mem. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 3: 57. 1834. A.
vulgaris auct. non L.: Hook.f. Fl. Brit.
India 3: 325. 1881. p.p.; Ling in Kew Bull. 42(2): 447. 1987.
Herbs, perennial, tall, 0.3 - 1.2 m high; rhizome prostrate, creeping, rooting; stems
simple, striate, sulcate, pubescent. Leaves pinnati-partite orpinnatifid; segments narrow,
lanceolate, acuminate, dentate, tomentose beneath; segment apices ovate and. mucronate
or acuminate or narrowly acuminate. Heads in small or large, dense or lax leafy panicles.
Heads campanulate or subglobose, glabrous when young, or tomentose at maturity,
simple apparently subsecund in dried state. Corolla of disc florets sparsely glandular, tube
gradually longitudinally narrow from the 3/4 of the corolla, attenuate.
KEY TO THE VARIETIES
| 1a. Leaves pinnati-partite; heads larger | 15.2. indica |
| b. Leaves 2-pinnatifid; heads smaller | 15.1. dissecta |
