Anaphalis patentifolia Rech. fil.

Closely related to A. staintonii in having pinkish phyllaries, spreading leaves but differs in having shorter stem and horizontal spreading leaves.

Low growing, tomentose, greyish perennial subshrubs. Stem erect or spreading (10-) 15-20 cm long, branched, laxly leafy, upper part, whitish woolly, sub-scabrous. Leaves horizontally spreading, 10-15 (-20) x 1-2 mm, greyish or dirty greyish greenish, narrowly oblanceolate, lower surface whitish woolly, upper surface sparsely hairy, apiculate, shortly decurrent with attenuate base. Capitula of loose corymbs, pinkish, 3-4 x 3-5 mm, campanulate, peduncle short, woolly, moderately thick; phyllaries 5-seriate, outer lanceolate, shorter, obtuse, inner and middle spathulate, apiculate, equal in size, longer than outer, shiny, often reddish but sometime straw-yellow coloured. Bisexual florets 25-40 (functionally male) in predominantly male capitula, with female florets 3-5. Corolla of bisexual florets dark brown, tubular with distinct glandular lobes, 2.5-3.2 mm; that of female florets light brown or yellow, filiform 2.5-3 mm long. Cypselas oblong, papillose, 0.5-1 mm long; pappus bristly, white, 2.8-3.5 mm long.

Distribution: Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Fl.Per.: August.

Grows in alpine pastures from 2500-4000 m.