Psychrogeton poncinsii - Ladakh Fleabane

Ladakh Fleabane is a perennial herb, 3-19 cm tall; Stems are erect or rising up, simple, densely to sparsely woolly, partly becoming hairless, stalkless or short-stipitate glandular. Leaves are sparsely or densely woolly, short-stipitate or stalkless glandular; basal stalked, blade inverted-lanceshaped to obovate or spoon-shaped, 1-6 x 0.3-1.5 cm, margin remotely coarsely sawtoothed or slightly wavy, rarely entire, tip pointed to blunt. Stem leaves are 3-5, stalkless or shortly stalked, blade inverted-lanceshaped to linear. Flower-heads are 1.5-2.4 cm across, solitary. Phyllaries are 2- or 3-seriate, linear-lanceshaped to linear-inverted-lanceshaped, outer partly green or gray-green, below densely to sparsely white woolly, inner 6.5-8 x about 1 mm. Ray florets are 4.4-5.4 mm, yellow, ageing to reddish or purplish, 1.3-3.5 × 0.7-1.2 mm, tip 3-finely toothed; disk florets narrowly funnel-shaped, appressed hairy, tube 1.7-1.8 mm, limb 3-3.5 mm, lobes 0.3-0.5 mm. Ladakh Fleabane is found in the Himalayas, from Pakistan to Himachal Pradesh, at altitudes of 3000-4500 m. It is common in Ladakh and Lahaul. It is also found in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, Iran and China. Flowering: June-August.