Synotis jinshajiangensis

Description: — Perennial rhizomatous subshrubs or shrubby herbs, Rhizome thick, woody. Stems erect, up to 200 cm tall, sparsely lanate or arachnoid-tomentose, ± glabrescent when old, usually branching above in synflorescences. Leaves petiolate, petiole 5 – 15 mm, sparsely tomentose, basally exauriculate, adaxially usually purple; blade narrowly oblong-elliptic, 8 – 18 × 1.5 – 4.0 cm, papery, both adaxially and abaxially sparsely tomentose, glabrescent when old, pinnately veined, lateral veins 12 to 24, arcuate-ascending, thinly white arachnoid to subglabrous, base attenuate, margin finely to coarsely mucronulate-serrate, apically acuminate; upper leaves smaller. Capitula disciform, numerous, arranged in terminal and axillary usually 10 to 30 - headed dense compound corymbs or thyrses; peduncles 5 – 10 mm, densely tomentose, with 2 to 4 linear or linear-subulate bracts. Involucres narrowly campanulate, 5 – 6 × 2.5 – 3.0 mm, calyculate; bracts of calyculus 3 – 5, linear-lanceolate, 3 – 5 mm, apically acuminate; phyllaries 5, rarely 4, linearlanceolate, ca. 1 mm wide, herbaceous, densely tomentose, margin narrowly scarious, apically obtuse to acute and puberulent. Disk florets 3 – 5; corolla yellow, ca. 6 mm, with ca. 4 mm tube and funnelform limb; lobes ovate-oblong, ca. 2 mm, apically acute. Anthers ca. 1.5 mm; anther tails obviously exceeding antheropodia; appendages ovateoblong; antheropodia rather slender, basally not dilated or slightly dilated. Style branches ca. 1 mm, fringed with short papillae, terminal tuft not evident. Achenes ca. 1.5 mm, glabrous. Pappus white, ca. 5 mm.