Askellia flexuosa
Askellia flexuosa (Ledeb.) W.A.Weber
Askellia flexuosa is a perennial herb in the Asteraceae family, growing 5-30 cm tall and found across regions including Qinghai, Gansu, Tibet, Mongolia, and others. It features glabrous, strongly branched flowering stems and rosette leaves that are obovate, lyrate-pinnatipartite, and glaucous. The plant produces yellow ligulate flowers in corymbiform synflorescences, with cylindrical involucres and white or yellowish pappus.
Description
Askellia flexuosa is a perennial herb in the Asteraceae family, growing 5-30 cm tall. It has a glabrous stem and a woody caudex. The rosette leaves are obovate, 2.5-6.5 cm long, lyrate-pinnatipartite, and glaucous on both surfaces. Cauline leaves are linear, obovate, or linear-ovate, with pinnatifid or runcinate margins. The synflorescence is corymbiform, with peduncles 0.5-4.0 cm long. Each head contains 9-13 yellow ligulate flowers, 10 mm long, with a 4 mm tube. The involucre is cylindrical, 6-10 mm long, with ovate outer bracts and narrowly ovate inner bracts. Achenes are fusiform, 4.3-6.0 mm long, with 10 ribs and a persistent or caducous pappus 4.0-5.5 mm long.
Distribution
Qinghai · Uttar Pradesh · Gansu · Tibet · Mongolia · Tadzhikistan · Tuva · Ningxia · Himachal Pradesh · Pakistan · Xinjiang · Afghanistan · Nepal · Shanxi · Kirgizistan · Kazakhstan · Jammu-Kashmir · Iran · Nei Mongol · Assam · China North-Central · Inner Mongolia · Kirgizstan · West Himalaya
Synonyms
Barkhausia flexuosaYoungia glaucaCrepis kusnezoviiYoungia flexuosa var. lyrataAskellia melantheraYoungia flexuosa var. flexuosaBarkhausia flexuosa var. flexuosaCrepis glaucaCrepis melantheraCrepis glaucaPrenanthes polymorpha var. flexuosaYoungia flexuosa var. giganteaCrepis kryloviiBarkhausia flexuosa var. lyrataCrepis flexuosaYoungia flexuosaCrepis flexuosa var. tenuifolia
