Launaea secunda (Royle ex C.B. Clarke) Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 416. 1881. Microrhynchus secundus Royle ex C.B. Clarke, comp. Ind. 276. 1876.

Herbs, perennial with stoloniferous rhizomes; stems 25 - 95 cm high, erect with solitary flowering branch or more than one flexible shoots. Leaves mostly radical, runcinate or lyrate-pinnatifid, irregularly lobulate, sharply dentate, with unequal lobes, 5 - 23 x 1.5 - 4.5 cm, glabrous or sparsely hairy; cauline leaves few or rare. Inflorescence fascicled or in subsessile racemes. Heads 1 - 1.4 x 0.3 - 0.4 cm, erect, narrow, sub-sessile; peduncle with few minute bracts. Involucral bracts two or three seriate; outer ovate or obovate, 2 - 3 x 1 - 1.2 mm, glabrous; inner linear or linear-lanceolate, 9 - 11 x 1.5 - 2.0 mm, finely glabrous. Ligules yellow. Stigma bifid, equal or slightly longer than corolla tube. Achenes pale, columnar and slightly angular, somewhat oblong, 2 - 2.2 mm long, smooth, truncate at both ends. Pappus white or pale-white, 3 - 5 mm long, smooth, unequal.

Fl. & Fr. May - Nov.

Distrib. India: W. Himalayas on open dry and shady slopes 1500-3000 m. Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.

Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nepal.