Achillea alimeana

Hanımperçemi

Perennial herb with woody rootstocks. Stems erect ascending, numerous, 40–60 cm long, with short sterile shoots, branched from the base, with stria and adpressed to subadpressed floccose hairy. Leaves homomorphic, with arachnoid or floccose hairy, linear to filiform, median cauline ones 8–18 × 0.8–1.2 mm, pinnatisect, segments ovate or semiorbicular, 0.5–0.8 × 0.2–0.5 mm, 1–3-denticulate, apiculate. Peduncles 2–22 mm. Capitula 4-8 per stem, 5–6 × 3.5– 4 mm, broadly rounded at base, corymbs extend to 2 cm. Involucre ovoid to hemispherical and angular, 4–5 × 4–5 mm, arachnoid hairy. Phyllaries in 3–4 series, outer ones 10–12 mm, ovate-oblong, median ones oblong-orbicular, inner ones lanceolate, all phyllaries scarious-margined, outers ones pannose on the middle vein. Receptacle paleaceous; palea 1.5–2 × 0.2–0.3 mm, linear-lanceolate, membranaceous. Ligules 5–6, yellow, 3–4.2 mm long, with three lobes; tube 2.3–2.5 mm long, lobes 1.2–1.7 × 1.2–1.5 mm, almost orbicular in outline. Anthers cream, slightly exserted from the tube. Disc flowers creamish yellow, 20–30, 3.5–4 mm, slightly exserted from involucres; style orange, 1–2 mm long, stigma two-partite as long as style. Cypselae oblong to narrowly obovoid, 2–3 mm long, compressed dorsally; pappus absent.

Endemic.