Artemisia pauciflora, Weber

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1976, Flora Europaea. Volume 4. Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae), Cambridge University Press : 182

16. A. pauciflora Weber in Stechm., Artem. 26 (1775).

Caespitose dwarf shrub, with a thick, woody, branched stock; flowering stems 10-20(-25) cm, numerous, slender, glabrescent. Leaves very small, usually tomentose, withering at anthesis; lower 2- to 3-pinnatisect, petiolate, sometimes with very small auricles, the middle 1 - to 2-pinnatisect, sessile, the uppermost simple; lobes 0-5-2 mm, linear to somewhat spathulate, subacute to obtuse. Capitula oblong, sessile or shortly pedunculate, erect, in a narrow paniculate inflorescence with erect, very slender branches; outer (female) florets absent. Involucre 2-2-5 mm; bracts oblong, the outer puberulent, the inner much longer than the outer, often recurved, glabrous, shiny, very narrow, with a distinct, narrow midrib and a scarious margin. Florets 2-3; corolla glabrous, glandular. S.E. Russia, W. Kazakhstan. Rs (E). (S. C. Asia.)