狭叶帚菊 xia ye zhou ju

Shrubs. Leaves on long shoots alternate, subsessile, leaf blade lanceolate or narrowly lanceolate, 2-3.5 × 0.3-0.6 cm, papery, abaxially subglabrous, adaxially sparsely pubescent, base attenuate, margin entire, ciliate, apex acuminate; leaves on branchlets tufted, 3 or 4, subsessile, leaf blade oblong or obovate-oblong. Capitula solitary, terminal on branchlets; peduncle ca. 2 cm × 7-8 mm; involucre broadly campanulate, 5-6 × ca. 5 mm; phyllaries ca. 3-seriate, margin ± arachnoid lanate, outer phyllaries ovate, ca. 3 mm, median obovate-oblong or subelliptic, 6-7 mm, inner oblanceolate, 4.5-6 mm. Florets bisexual, corollas tubular, 7-8.5 mm, deeply 5-lobed, lobes slightly unequal, oblong. Immature achenes obconic, ca. 1 mm, densely hairy; pappus snow white, ca. 6 mm. Fl. Apr.

● Meadows, scrub; ca. 3600 m. Sichuan (Dawu).