Carpesium nepalense

Carpesium nepalense Less., Linnaea 6: 234. 1831 (Syn: Carpesium acutum Hayata; Carpesium cernuum var. nepalense (Less.) C. B. Cl.);

China (Yunnan), Taiwan, Tibet, India (NE-India, Nilgiris, temperate Himalayas, Meghalaya), Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Darjeeling, Myanmar [Burma] (Mandalay), Sri Lanka, Vietnam as per Catalogue of Life;

Plant 30-80cm; stems puberulous at first to persistently lanate. Leaves ovate, rarely elliptic, narrower in inflorescence, 4-25 x 1.2-7cm, usually briefly acuminate, truncate and petiole to narrowly long attenuate at base, entire to sinuate denticulate, sparsely puberulous to pilose above and to thinly lanate beneath, short glandular hairy on both surfaces. Capitula usually solitary at branch ends, rarely several, well spaced along branches and subsessile, nodding, surrounded by a cluster of elliptic leafy bracts, each 1-5 x 0.3-1cm. Involucre 3-4-seriate; outermost phyllaries herbaceous at least above, oblong, c 6-8 x 2mm,acute or acuminate; inner ones shorter, scarious, oblong, acute or some obtuse. Disc 6-17mm diameter, greenish-yellow; corollas 1.4-3mm, tube glabrous or hairy. Achenes 4mm.

Fl. July – October

Meadows, clearings,pathsides, banks, streamsides in forests

(Attributions- A.J.C Grierson & D.G.Long. Flora of Bhutan. Published by RGoB and RBGE. 2001)
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