| Class: | Magnoliopsida |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Karelinia |
| Editor | Bektemir Osmonali |
| Scientific name: | Karelinia caspia (Pall.) Less. |
| Name acc. to: | Bektemir |
| Herbar: | list records  |
| Description: | Herbs, perennial. Stem without resin canals and fibers in phloem. Leaves alternate, elliptic-oblong, entire, not decurrent, sparsely hairy. Capitula heterogamous, disciform, solitary, terminal. Phyllaries broadly oblong, hard. Receptacle epaleate. Marginal florets female; corolla filiform, 3-lobed. Disk florets functionally male. Style bifid; cells of antheropodium mammillate; endothecial tissue radial. |
| Link to Flora of China: | http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=116970 |