Artemisia myriantha
Wallich ex Bess. in Nouv. Mem. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 3: 51.
1834. A.
vulgaris auct non. Hook.f. Fl. Brit. India 3: 325. 1881. p.p
Herbs, perennial, glandular hairy; stems up to 1 m high rhizome horizontal. Leaves
pinnatisect or middle and the upper leaves pinnati-partite, scabrous to glandular hairy
above, glabrous or densely pale white lanate beneath; segments irregularly, coarsely
dentate-lobed; lower segments rarely lobed; rachis of upper segments constricted. Heads
in pyramidal panicles or simple racemes, globose or oblong campanulate, sometimes well
spaced. Involucral bracts ovate-lanceolate, obtuse more or less glabrous or hairy; outer
herbaceous. Receptacle naked. Outer florets female, fertile; corolla slender, sparsely
glanduiar, 3-fid. Disc florets hermaphrodite, fertile, tube small, attenuate, sparsely
glandular; limb 5-fid. Achenes elliptic oblong, ca 1.2 mm long, smooth, truncate at the
apices, faintly striate..
KEY TO THE VARIETIES
| 1a. Leaves glabrous beneath | 20.1. myriantha |
| b. Leaves densely pale white lanate beneath | 20.2. pleiocephala |
