Catamixis bachharoides

Catamixis bachharoides

catamixis-bachharoides

Baccharis Catamixis is a rare and threatened Himalayan undershrub, growing up to 0.75-1.8 m tall. Branchlets are round, aspressed silky hairy, or becoming hairless, densely leafy. Leaves are 3.5-5 cm long, obovate-spoon-shaped, base tapering into a stalk, leathery, hairless, margin wavy toothed. Flower-heads consist of 5-6-florets. They are slender, scarcely 1.5 inches. Flowers are whitish with a pinkish tinge. Seed-pods are 2 mm, velvet-hairy. Flowering: March-May.