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Male meiotic studies have been carried out on the wild plants of Tanacetum artemisioides Sch. Bip. ex Hook. f. collected from the cold desert regions of Ladakh Division of Jammu and Kashmir. The studied individuals, which existed at the 2x level (2n=18), showed structural heterozygosity for reciprocal translocations as indicated by the presence of multiple chromosomal associations of four to six chromosomes. This is the first report of structural heterozygosity for the species. The structural heterozygotes showed considerable amount of pollen sterility (30-35%) which could be attributed to the presence of ring/chain shaped multivalent in PMCs.