''Cancrinia'' is a
genus of flowering plants in the aster family,
Asteraceae. They are native to central
Asia, where they are distributed in
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
,
Mongolia, and
Russia.
[''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 dwarf shrub is a short shrub, and is a woody plant. Prostrate shrub is a related term. "Subshrub" is often used interchangeably with "bush".Jackson, Benjamin, Daydon; A Glossary of Botanic Terms with their Der ...
s. The leaves are alternately arranged or clustered, sometimes densely.
Flower heads
A pseudanthium (Greek for "false flower"; ) 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, compos ...
are solitary at the tips of the stems or arranged in
inflorescences. The hemispherical or cup-shaped head is lined with 3 or 4 rows of
phyllaries 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 dry fruit produced by many species of flowering plants. Achenes are monocarpellate (formed from one carpel) and indehiscent (they do not ope ...
tipped with lance-shaped scales like a
pappus.
[
''Cancrinia discoidea'' is used as a medicinal remedy for inflammation 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'' - Altay, Irkutsk, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tibet, Gansu, Xingiang, Mongolia
* '' 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
]
References
Asteraceae genera
Anthemideae
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