Distribution
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Himalaya (Kashmir to Bhutan), Tibet, W. China.
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Cyclicity
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Flowering and fruiting from June to August.
Diagnostic Description
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Aster asteroides is close relative of Aster likiangensis, but differs from the latter in its involucral bract 1-1.5 mm wide (vs. 2-3 mm wide), disc florets orange yellow (vs. upper purplish brown).
Distribution
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Aster asteroides is occurring in C S Xizang, W Sichuan, E Qianghai, NW Yunnan of China, Bhutan, Sikkim, Nepal.
General Description
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Perennial herbs, erect, green or purplish, villous or glandular pubescent, 4-20 cm tall, with tuberous rootstock. Leaves ovate, elliptic, linear-lanceolate, acute or obtuse at apex, usually entire or 1-2-denticulate, 1-4 cm long, 0.5-1.5 cm wide, glabrous or villous, upper sessile, lower petioled; petiole 1-3 cm long. Heads solitary, ca. 1.5 cm across. Involucral bracts 2-3-seriate, ca. 1 cm long, acuminate, pubescent or villous. Ray florets many; tube ca. 1 mm long, ligule bluish purple or mauve, 1.5-2.5 cm long. Disc florets, orange yellow or purplish, ca. 5 mm long. Style appendages, lanceolate. Achenes brownish, ca. 3 mm long, silky hairy. Pappus white or yellowish, ca. 1.5 mm long, double; outer setae paleaceous.
Genetics
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The chromosomal number of Aster asteroides is 2n = 18 (Semple et al., 1993).
Habitat
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Growing in scrubs, wet grasslands of alpine mountains; 3200-3500 m.
