Meconopsis integrifolia in Deqen

Meconopsis integrifolia in Deqen

　　Meconopsis integrifolia is a perennial herb covered densely with white or pale yellow long soft hairs, growing 10–25 cm tall. The stem is usually hollow, rod-like, with brownish-black residual leaves at the base.

　　Leaves are alternate, densely arranged, sessile, lanceolate or narrowly obovate, 2–10 cm long and 0.5–1.5 cm wide, with pinnately lobed or coarsely toothed margins, and densely covered with white long soft hairs. The flower heads of Meconopsis integrifolia are numerous and densely clustered, each about 15–25 mm long; the involucral bracts are narrowly oblanceolate, about 12 mm long and 2 mm wide, glabrous, glossy, herbaceous in the center and membranous at the edges, with three distinct longitudinal veins; the flowers are bisexual, all tubular, about 1 cm long, erect, with the corolla tube as long as the limb, and the lobes lanceolate; the anthers are basally sagittate; the style is linear.

　　The achene is about 7 mm long, flattened, brown, with indistinct four ridges; the pappus has two layers, with the outer layer shorter and bearing short hairs, while the inner layer is feathery.