Helichrysum thianschanicum Regel

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Helichrysum

Characteristics

Herbs, perennial. Rhizome up to 1 cm in diam., woody, fibrous-splintery, multicipital. Flowering stems few to numerous, 30-60 cm tall, branching approximately from middle (rarely simple), with slender ramuscules 5-12 cm; entire plant covered, with thin dense whitish-grayish tomentose pubescence. Leaves of sterile offshoots linear-spatulate, wider and longer than linear-lanceolate acuminate leaves of flowering stems. Capitula 3-6 or more arranged at ends of shoots and branches, narrowly campanulate or obconical, 5-7 × 4-6 mm, almost as long as peduncles, or subsessile. Phyllaries ca. 30, yellow, rather loosely imbricate, arranged in 6 or 7 rows, ± squarrose in upper part, abaxially tomentose pubescent in lower part, outermost ones lanceolate and 1/3-1/2 as long as inner ones, linear-lanceolate or spatulate, acuminate or truncate at apex. Florets in a capitulum ca. 25. Pappus of ca. 40 very thin hairs. Fl. Jul-Sep. 2n = 28.
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A herb. It keeps growing from year to year. It has a rhizome 1 cm across. It grows 30-60 cm tall. The leaves are narrow or spoon shaped.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support -
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.3 - 0.6
Root system fibrous-root rhizome
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

It is a temperate plant. In western China it grows in gravelly places and dunes below 3,000 m above sea level.
Light 7-9
Soil humidity 1-5
Soil texture 5-6
Soil acidity 1-5
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 5-8

Usage

The leaves are used as a potherb.
Uses potherb
Edible leaves
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by divisions or seedlings.
Mode divisions seedlings
Germination duration (days) 7 - 10
Germination temperacture (C°) 18 - 23
Germination luminosity light
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -23
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

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Helichrysum thianschanicum unspecified picture

Distribution

Helichrysum thianschanicum world distribution map, present in China, Germany, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:213428-1
WFO ID wfo-0000060490
COL ID 3K7CP
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Helichrysum thianschanicum Helichrysum kokanicum Helichrysum thianschanicum var. thianschanicum Helichrysum thianschanicum var. aureum Helichrysum arenarium var. kokanicum