Botanical name: Inula koelzii    Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)

Ladakh Inula is a perennial herb, 23-24 cm tall, lax hairy and papillate-glandular. It is named for Walter Norman Koelz (1895-1989), botanist and zoologist. Flower-heads are borne singly in leaf-axils or at branch-ends, 2-5 cm in diameter. Ray florets are about 7 mm long. Involucre is 1.8-2.0 cm long, bracts 4-seriate, overlapping, outer leafy, lanceshaped or inverted-lanceshaped, tapering, hairy, 18 x 3 mm, inner membranous, narrower, dorsally glandular with finely velvet-hairy margins. Leaves are elliptic, margins sawtoothed-glandular; upper stalkless semi-stem-clasping, base eared, tip tapering-pointed; lower long stalked, blunt-pointed, 11-15 x 3-5 cm. Cypsellae 3-4 mm long, oblong, four-edged, hairless. Pappus is golden yellow, biseriate, basally fused, 30-52 in number, 5 mm long. Ladakh Inula is endemic to Ladakh, growing at altitudes of 3600-4300 m. Flowering: August-September.

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