Botanical name: Cremanthodium thomsonii    Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)
Synonyms: Senecio nephelagetus

Sikkim Drooping-Daisy is a perennial herb with a solitary erect stem, 25–50 cm tall and about 3 mm in diameter at the base, is proximally hairless and distally dark brown hairy. Flower-heads are solitary, nodding; involucre hemispheric, 1-1.5 x 1.5-2.5 cm, with 10-14 phyllaries in 2 rows. Ray florets are yellow, 1.6-2.3 cm x 6-9 mm; tubular florets numerous, 7-10 mm. Basal leaves are long-stalked, with stalks 10-15 cm, hairless and narrowly sheathed at the base. Leaf blades are kidney-shaped to round-kidney-shaped, 2-4 x 3-5.5 cm, sparsely short black hairy along veins beneath and hairless above, with prominent palmate venation and shallowly to coarsely toothed margins. The middle stem leaf is solitary, stalked, and smaller. Distal stem leaves are 1-2, stalkless, linear-lanceshaped, with entire margins. Achenes wedge-shaped, 4–5 mm; pappus brown. Sikkim Drooping-Daisy is is found in alpine habitats at altitudes of 3500-4800 m in, Sikkim, Nepal, Bhutan, SE Xizang and NW Yunnan. Flowering: June-August.

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