Artemisia wallichiana
Bess. in Nouvo Mem. S. Nat. Moscow 3: 69. 1834. A.
moorcroftiana Wallich ex DC., Prodr. 6: 117. 1838; Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 327.
1881. A. brunnea Pamp. in Rend. Sem. Fac. Sci. Univ. Caliari 8: 168. 1938.
Herbs, perennial, hoary or tomentose or glabrous becomming yellow, ca 30 - 60 cm
high; rootstock creeping; stems simple below. Leaves 2-pinnatifid, ovate or oblong in
outline, white tomentose beneath; rachis pinnatifid; segments spreading, ovate or
lanceolate, acute. Heads woolly tomentose or partially woolly pubescent, with 15 - 20
florets, sessile, solitary or in clusters along the racemes, or forming interrupted elongated
spikes, broadly hemispheric or subglobose or campanulate, 4 - 6 mm in diam. Involucral
bracts 3 x 0.8 - 1.5 mm; outer obovate, white tomentose; inner broadly oblanceolate or
narrowly obovate. Receptacle broad, hemispheric. Outer florets female, fertile, slender,
ca 1.2 mm long. Disc florets more or less dull purple; hermaphrodite, fertile, 2 x 0.5
mm, fertile, limb 5-fid. Achenes ca 1 mm long.
KEY TO THE FORMAS
| 1a. Heads subglobose, woolly tomentose | 32.2. wallichiana |
| b. Heads campanulate, partially woolly pubescent | 32.1. nitida |
