Botanical name: Hedinia tibetica    Family: Brassicaceae (Mustard family)
Synonyms: Smelowskia tibetica, Bursa tibetica, Smelowskia tibetica

Tibetan Hedinia is a perennial prostrate herb, 5-30 cm long, branched mostly from the base, hoary woolly. Leaves are pinnately divided, 5-10-jugate, 1-5 cm long, 0.3-1.5 cm broad, basal ones shortly stalked, upper stalkless or nearly so; lobes many, up to 8 mm long, 1-2 mm broad; all leaves hoary-woolly. Flowers are borne in racemes which are 10-30-flowered, lax, bracteate, up to 10 cm long in fruit. Flowers are about 3 mm across, white, nearly stalkless; flower-stalks up to 3 mm long in fruit. Sepals are about 2 mm long, 1 mm broad. Petals are 3-4 mm long, 1-1.5 mm broad. Stamens are about 2: 2.3 mm long. Seedpods are oblong, laterally flattened, 6-10 mm long, 3-3.5 mm broad, slightly hairy or hairless. Tibetan Hedinia is found in Central Asia to Himalaya and W. & Central China, at altitudes of 3700-5200 m. Flowering: June-July.

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