Hippolytia gossypina (C.B.Clarke) C.Shih

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Hippolytia

Characteristics

Cushion plants, ca. 7 cm tall. Leafy shoots densely compact, with dense overlapping leaves. Leaves inconspicuously petiolate; leaf blade spatulate, 1-1.2 × 0.35-0.7 cm, white or gray-white, both surfaces densely long lanate, apex truncate or rounded, 3-6-divided. Capitula 10, in a dense corymb ca. 2.5 cm in diam. at apices of branches. Involucres cuneate, ca. 6 mm in diam.; phyllaries in 3 rows, outer ones linear, ca. 7 mm, abaxially densely long lanate, middle and inner ones oblanceolate, ca. 5 mm, abaxially lanate above middle part or at upper part in inner ones. Florets yellow, ca. 3 mm. Fl. Aug-Oct.
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Mature height (meter) 0.11
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Hardiness (USDA) 7-12

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Distribution

Hippolytia gossypina world distribution map, present in Bhutan, China, India, and Nepal

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:224902-1
WFO ID wfo-0000077897
COL ID 3M26V
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Synonyms

Tanacetum gossypinum Chrysanthemum gossypinum Hippolytia gossypina