Jurinea dolomiaea Boiss., Fl. Or. Suppl. 311. 1888. Carduus macrocephalus Wallich, Cat. 100 n. 2904. 1831 (nom. nud.). Dolomiaea macrocephala Royle, Ill. Bot. Himal. 251. t . 57. 1835. jurinea macrocephala (Royle) C.B. Clarke, Comp. Ind. 237. 1876, (non DC.); Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 378. 1881.

Stemless perennials; root woody. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, pinnate or pinnatifid, 15 - 45 x 3.5 - 17.5 cm, cottony or cobwebby above, thickly white tomentose beneath; lobes broad, lobulate or pinnatifid, denticulate; teeth acute or mucronate. Heads many (3-30), 1.5 - 2.5 cm across, sessile or short peduncled; peduncles stout, tomentose, often cottony at base. Involucral bracts 1.8 - 3.5 cm long; outer ovate-lanceolate; inner elliptic-lanceolate, long acuminate, scabrid or smooth, erect, scarious. Receptacular bristles united into laciniate cup, bristles much shorter than achenes. Corolla 2.5 - 3 cm long. Anther tails lacerate. Achenes cuneate-obovate, ca 6 - 8 mm long, curved, compressed, unequally 4 - 5-angled, truncate, tubercled. Pappus brown, ca 2.5 cm long, copious, brown, cohering at base.

Fl. & Fr. June - Sept.

Distrib. India: W. Himalayas, Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.

Nepal and China.

Notes. According to Hara et al. (1982) J. macrocephala DC., Prodr. 6: 674. 1838 is based on a plant from Iran. The style branches of J. dolomiaea are long. Some authors treat this species as Dolomiaea macrocephala DC. Aswal & Goel (Indian J. For. 11(4): 339. 1988) have proposed a transfer of this species under Jurinella macrocephala (Royle) Aswal et Goel.