Anaphalis triplinervis
(Sims.) C.B .
Clarke, Compo Ind. 105. 1876;
Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 281: 1881. Antennaria triplinervis Sims. in Bot.
Mag. 51: t. 2468. 1823.
Herbs, erect, rhizomatous, 3 - 45 cm high; stems often flexuous, sometimes
many from stoloniferous rootstock, striate, appressedly ashy white, hairy.
Leaves very variable, broadly elliptic or linear-oblong or lanceolate or lowest
obovate-spathulate, sometimes basal ones clustered, base clasping oramplexicaul
or narrowed down to a flat petiole, acute with dark mucro or a scarious naked
awn, entire, 0.4 - 13.5 x 0.1 - 5.5 cm, arachnoid hairy above and densely matted
with white-grey tomentum beneath, 1 - 7 nerved. Heads solitary or more in
terminal corymbs, 0.3 - 1.5 cm across; peduncles 0.3 -3 cm long, densely woolly.
Involucral bracts glistening white, scari ous , many-seriate, ovate or elliptic-
lanceolate, acute or obtuse, brownish at base. Ray florets female with filiform
corolla, ca 2 - 3 mm long, obscurely or distinctly 4-toothed. Disc florets bisexual
ca 2 - 3 mm long, 5-toothed. Style bifid. Achenes oblong, ca 0.3 - 0.8 mm long,
tubercled-hairy. Pappus hairs white, bristly.
Notes.
Highly variable, polymorphic species with the following varieties.
KEY TO THE VARIETIES
1a. Leaves broadly elliptic or obovate, 3 - 7 nerved
