Nothing comes to mind. Best to wait and see what flower-heads look like when open.

Plants are not always conveniently in flower (or fruit) when we come across them.  However, it is worthwhile including images of each species at different stages of development within the reference photos for that species - though one needs to be familiar with the plant first.

It is seldom worthwhile collecting pressed specimens of a plant not in flower or fruit to take to a herbarium for identification - most will be rejected.  Hard enough and at times uncertain enough when flowers or fruit are present.

My first job as a field botanist in the UK was as team-leader of a survey of riverside vegetation in Wales.  Our objective was to attempt to record every flowering plant (and sometimes bryophytes) along 500m stretches of riverbank.  It was hardest in the spring when most plants had not reached flowering stage.  Fewer clues available than when a plant is in flower or fruit - although for the UK there is now 'The Vegetative Key to the British Flora' - which I have not been able to get into using much yet.

It is going to be an awfully long time before the flora of Nepal or the Himalaya as a whole will be known sufficiently well for a comparable guide for identifying plants based upon leaf characteristics to be prepared! 

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Thanks, ... But does not match with images of Saussurea deltoidea at

Enclosing Nepal list if it could do some help for ID.

Enclosing some images from the book Flora of Kathmandu Valley, Stainton and some links for validation. 

Flora of Kathmandu Valley listed only one Saussurea deltoidea (DC.) Sch.Bip. around Kathmandu valley but the Plant List says Himalaiella deltoidea (DC.) Raab-Straub is the accepted name.

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Somehow, not getting convinced.

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If these images in GBIF are correct, it should be Himalaiella deltoidea only.

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