9. Tribe ANTHEMIDEAE

and leaflike bracts divided or entire; bracts lanceolate or linearlanceolate.
Synflorescence a leafy, narrowly conical panicle,
20–40 × 5–12 cm; primary branches ascending, 5–10 cm.
Capitula many, shortly pedunculate or ± sessile, nodding,
remote or approximate toward branch apices. Involucre
globose, 3–5(–6) mm in diam.; outer phyllaries linear-oblong,
green, not scarious margined, sparsely arachnoid. Marginal
female florets 10–12; corolla slender, glandular, 2-toothed. Disk
florets 40–60, glabrous. Achenes brown, oblong, ca. 1 mm. Fl.
and fr. Aug–Oct. 2n = 18, 54.
Hills, steppes, semidesert steppes, meadows, rocky slopes, scrub,
dry floodlands, wastelands; 1500–4900 m. Gansu, Hubei, W Nei Mongol,
Ningxia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, W Sichuan, Xinjiang, Xizang [Kazakhstan,
Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan; E
Europe].
Chinese material of Artemisia stechmanniana has been incorrectly
named as A. gmelinii.
30. Artemisia vestita Wallich ex Besser, Tent. Abrot. 25. 1832.
毛莲蒿 mao lian hao
Artemisia potentillifolia H. Léveillé (1912), not Fischer ex
Sprengel (1826); A. sacrorum Ledebour subf. obscura Pampanini;
A. sacrorum f. platiloba Pampanini; A. sacrorum var.
vestita (Wallich ex Besser) Kitamura; A. sacrorum f. wallichiana
Pampanini.
Subshrubs, caespitose, 50–120 cm tall, with woody rootstock
and basal branches, arachnoid pubescent, especially on
adaxial surface of leaves, much branched, strongly aromatic.
Lower and middle stem leaves: petiole 0.8–2 cm; leaf blade
ovate, elliptic-ovate, or suborbicular, (2–)3.5–7.5 × (1.5–)2–4
cm, 2(or 3)-pinnatisect; segments 4–6 pairs; lobules deeply serrate;
teeth elliptic, 1–2 × 0.2–0.5 mm; rachis serrate. Uppermost
leaves and leaflike bracts smaller, pinnatisect or entire; bracts
lanceolate, sparsely pectinate. Synflorescence a ± broad panicle.
Capitula many. Involucre globose or hemispheric, 2.5–3.5(–4)
mm in diam. Marginal female florets 6–10. Disk florets 12–20,
bisexual. Achenes oblong or obovoid. Fl. and fr. Aug–Oct. 2n =
18.
Hills, rocky slopes, grasslands, shrublands, outer forest margins;
2000–4300 m. Gansu, NW Guangxi, Guizhou, N Hubei, Liaoning,
Qinghai, W Sichuan, Xinjiang, Xizang, Yunnan [N India, Nepal, N
Pakistan].
Artemisia vestita is used in anti-inflammatory and antifebrile
medicines.
31. Artemisia baimaensis Y. R. Ling & Z. C. Chou, Bull. Bot.
Res., Harbin 4(2): 16. 1984.
班玛蒿 ban ma hao
Subshrubs, ca. 60 cm tall or more, much branched, densely
gray pubescent or arachnoid pubescent. Middle and upper stem
leaves: petiole 3–5 mm; leaf blade ovate, 3–4 × 2–2.5 cm,
sparsely gland-dotted, 2- or 3-pinnatisect; segments 3 or 4 pairs;
lobules 3 or 4 pairs; teeth minute, elliptic, 3–5 × 1–2 mm; rachis
narrowly winged. Leaflike bracts 1- or 2-pinnatisect. Synflo-
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rescence a broad panicle. Capitula many. Involucre broadly
ovoid, 2.5–3 mm in diam.; phyllaries gray arachnoid pubescent.
Marginal female florets 5–8. Disk florets 8–15, bisexual.
Achenes ellipsoid-ovoid or ellipsoid-obovoid. Fl. and fr. Aug–
Oct.
● Forest margins; ca. 3400 m. Qinghai.
32. Artemisia medioxima Krascheninnikov ex Poljakov, Bot.
Mater. Gerb. Bot. Inst. Komarova Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R. 17: 405.
1955.
尖栉齿叶蒿 jian zhi chi ye hao
Subshrubs, 70–120 cm tall, shortly and capitately branched
or not apically, white or gray pubescent, with a few branches.
Lowermost and middle stem leaves: petiole 1.5–3 cm; leaf
blades elliptic or oblong, 4–6(–9) × 2–4 cm, thin, gland-dotted,
1- or 2-pinnatisect; segments (4 or)5(or 6) pairs; lobes lanceolate
or elliptic-lanceolate, pectinately serrate; teeth shortly lanceolate
or linear-lanceolate, 4–10 × 1–2 mm, obtuse apically.
Uppermost leaves and leaflike bracts 1- or 2-pinnatisect. Capitula
in narrow racemose or racemose-panicles, hemispheric, 4–6
mm in diam., pedunculate below and without peduncles above.
Marginal female florets 8–10. Disk florets 20–40, bisexual;
corolla limb puberulent or glabrescent. Achenes oblong, slightly
oppressed. Fl. and fr. Jul–Oct.
Steppes, forest steppes, outer forest margins; low to middle elevations.
N Hebei, Heilongjiang, E Nei Mongol, N Shanxi [E Russia].
33. Artemisia freyniana (Pampanini) Krascheninnikov, Spisok
Rast. Gerb. Fl. S.S.S.R. Bot. Inst. Vsesojuzn. Akad. Nauk 11:
42. 1949.
绿栉齿叶蒿 lü zhi chi ye hao
Artemisia sacrorum Ledebour f. freyniana Pampanini,
Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital., n.s., 34: 688. 1927.
Subshrubs, 18–35(–45) cm tall, with thick woody rootstock,
with short sterile shoots, with peeling grayish brown
bark, and slender, erect, flowering shoots, with branches short
or absent, lower parts glabrescent, upper parts more persistently
puberulent. Middle stem leaves: petiole 3–5 mm, with pinnatifid
basal auricles or pseudostipules; leaf blade elliptic-ovate or
elliptic, 2–3 × 0.7–1.5 cm, 2-pinnatisect, abaxially puberulent,
adaxially dark green, glabrous; segments 4 or 5 pairs, elliptic,
5–15 × 3–4 mm, pectinately divided; lobules lanceolate, entire
or serrulate. Uppermost leaves and leaflike bracts divided or entire;
bracts linear or linear-lanceolate. Capitula in dense spicate-
or racemose-panicles, globose, 2–3 mm in diam. Marginal female
florets 6–8. Disk florets 16–20, bisexual. Achenes obovoid
or ellipsoid. Fl. and fr. Aug–Oct.
Steppes, slopes, dry river valleys, riverbanks, outer forest margins;
low to middle elevations. N Gansu, Heilongjiang, W Jilin, Nei Mongol,
Ningxia [Mongolia, E Russia].
34. Artemisia maximovicziana Krascheninnikov ex Poljakov,
Bot. Mater. Gerb. Bot. Inst. Komarova Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R. 17:
403. 1955.
东亚栉齿蒿 dong ya zhi chi hao