Blunt-Leaf Inula is a perennial herb with a woody
rootstock. Stems are many, arising from woody rootstock, 12-30 cm tall,
densely papillate-glandular and long hairy. Leaves are stalkless,
elliptic-lanceshaped, 3-7 x 2-2.5 cm, hairy and papillate-glandular,
margin entire to obscurely toothed, tip pointed-blunt. Flower-heads are
usually solitary, at branch-ends, 1.5-3 cm in diameter. Involucre is
depressed semispherical; phyllaries 4- or 5-seriate, regularly
overlapping, outermost herbaceous-leaflike,
lanceshaped-inverted-lanceshaped, 4-6 x 2-3 mm, tip pointed-blunt,
inner membranous, tapering. Ray florets are radiate, 1-2 cm. Disk
florets are tubular, 6-7 mm. Seed-pods are 2-3 mm, silky-hairy. Pappus
setae uniseriate, 20-22, pale reddish, 5-6 mm. Blunt-Leaf Inula is
found in rock crevices, on dry cliffs, slopes, stony places, at
altitudes of 2000-4500 m in the Himalayas, from E Afghanistan to
Kashmir, and in C Asia. It is fairly common in Ladakh. Flowering:
June-August.
Identification credit: Saroj Kumar Kasaju
Photographed in Ladakh.
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