Compilation
Aulax pallasia

a shrub, up to 4 ft. high; leaves intermediate in shape between those of the two preceding species from linear-filiform to linear with a long attenuated base, acute to obtuse, 2–5 in. long, 1/2–2 (rarely 3) lin. wide, rather straight, flat or the narrowest semiterete and channelled above; male racemes 1–1 1/2 in. long; bracts up to 2 lin. long, exceeding or the upper equalling the pedicels; perianth 3–4 lin. long, including the 2 1/2 lin.-long limb; anthers over 1 lin. long, usually at length recurved; style 3 lin. long, very slender; female heads 1/2– 3/4 in. long and 3/4–1 in. across; involucral branches bearing 1 flower at or above the lower 1/3, narrow, not fused at the base into a receptacle at length hard and woody, usually sparingly and minutely puberulous, particularly below, often deeply divided, the lateral divisions without flowers and pectinate-bracteate, pectination throughout looser than in the preceding species; dorsal leaves few, mostly needle-shaped, acute, incurved, rarely flat, linear to oblanceolate-linear and obtuse, 1/2–1 in. long, forming with the uppermost leaves a dense outer involucre, central axis rather slender, including the terminal barren bracts over 1/2 in. long, usually bearing flowers to more than 1/2 way; bracts subulate, 2–1 lin. long; perianth 3 1/2 lin. long, including the slightly finely filiform more than 1 lin.-long spreading or recurved segments; style 2 1/2 lin. long; nut ellipsoid, shortly contracted at the base, elliptic in cross-section, with 4 rather broad primary and 4 slender secondary ribs, more or less fulvous-villous all over, the hairs on the ribs, and particularly those of the lateral, longer than the rest. null