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''Cancrinia'' is a
genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of flowering plants in the aster family,
Asteraceae Asteraceae () is a large family (biology), family of flowering plants that consists of over 32,000 known species in over 1,900 genera within the Order (biology), order Asterales. The number of species in Asteraceae is rivaled only by the Orchi ...
. They are native to central
Asia Asia ( , ) is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population. It covers an area of more than 44 million square kilometres, about 30% of Earth's total land area and 8% of Earth's total surface area. The continent, which ...
, where they are distributed in
China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...
,
Mongolia Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south and southeast. It covers an area of , with a population of 3.5 million, making it the world's List of countries and dependencies by po ...
, and
Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders ...
.''Cancrinia''.
Flora of China 小甘菊属 xiao gan ju shu .
These are compact, woolly-haired perennial herbs and
subshrub A subshrub (Latin ''suffrutex'') or undershrub is either a small shrub (e.g. prostrate shrubs) or a perennial that is largely herbaceous but slightly woody at the base (e.g. garden pink and florist's chrysanthemum). The term is often interch ...
s. The leaves are alternately arranged or clustered, sometimes densely.
Flower heads A pseudanthium (; : pseudanthia) is an inflorescence that resembles a flower. The word is sometimes used for other structures that are neither a true flower nor a true inflorescence. Examples of pseudanthia include flower heads, composite flowers ...
are solitary at the tips of the stems or arranged in
inflorescence In botany, an inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a plant's Plant stem, stem that is composed of a main branch or a system of branches. An inflorescence is categorized on the basis of the arrangement of flowers on a mai ...
s. The hemispherical or cup-shaped head is lined with 3 or 4 rows of
phyllaries In botanical terminology, a phyllary, also known an involucral bract or tegule, is a single bract of the involucre of a composite flower. The involucre is the grouping of bracts together. Phyllaries are reduced leaf-like structures that form one o ...
that sometimes have dark margins. It contains tubular yellow disc florets. The fruit is an
achene An achene (; ), also sometimes called akene and occasionally achenium or achenocarp, is a type of simple fruit, simple dry fruits, dry fruit produced by many species of flowering plants. Achenes are monocarpellate (formed from one carpel) and Dehi ...
tipped with lance-shaped scales like a pappus. ''Cancrinia discoidea'' is used as a medicinal remedy for
inflammation Inflammation (from ) is part of the biological response of body tissues to harmful stimuli, such as pathogens, damaged cells, or irritants. The five cardinal signs are heat, pain, redness, swelling, and loss of function (Latin ''calor'', '' ...
and other conditions.Su, J., et al. (2011)
Evaluation of the in vivo anti-inflammatory activity of a flavone glycoside from ''Cancrinia discoidea'' (Ledeb.) Poljak.
''EXCLI Journal'' 10, 110-16.
; Species''Cancrinia''.
The Plant List.
* '' Cancrinia angrenica'' - Tajikistan * '' Cancrinia chrysocephala'' - Altay, Kazakhstan, Xinjiang * ''
Cancrinia discoidea ''Cancrinia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the aster family, Asteraceae. They are native to central Asia, where they are distributed in China, Mongolia, and Russia.Cancrinia karataviensis'' - Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan * '' Cancrinia krasnoborovii'' - Siberia * '' Cancrinia lasiocarpa'' - Gansu, Mongolia, Ningxia * '' Cancrinia litwinowii'' - Xinjiang * '' Cancrinia maximowiczi'' - Gansu, Xingiang, Mongolia, Qinghai * '' Cancrinia pamirica'' - Tajikistan * '' Cancrinia rupestris'' - Turkmenistan * '' Cancrinia tianschanica'' - Altay, Kazakhstan, Xinjiang, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan * '' Cancrinia tripinnatifida'' - West Himalaya


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Asteraceae genera Anthemideae {{Anthemideae-stub