弯齿风毛菊 wan chi feng mao ju

Saussurea cirsioides Hemsley; S. giraldii Diels; S. likiangensis Franchet; S. likiangensis var. integrifolia Handel-Mazzetti; S. likiangensis var. siningensis Handel-Mazzetti.

Herbs (6-)10-80 cm tall, perennial. Caudex stout, covered with remains of petioles. Stem solitary, blackish purple, erect, simple, arachnoid lanate. Basal leaves petiolate; petiole 4-8 cm, winged; leaf blade narrowly elliptic, 6-18 × 1-3 cm, pinnately lobed, abaxially grayish white or rarely green, golden gland-dotted, densely arachnoid tomentose, and sometimes glabrescent, adaxially green and sparsely arachnoid or glabrous; lateral lobes 4-6 pairs, triangular, margin denticulate, apex mucronate; terminal lobe triangular, apex acute to obtuse. Stem leaves 2-5, shortly petiolate to sessile, gradually smaller upward on stem. Uppermost stem leaves subtending synflorescence, sessile, narrowly elliptic to linear, pinnately lobed to pinnately cleft. Capitula 3-20, clustered in a corymbiform or globose synflorescence, subsessile. Involucre ovoid to globose, 6-10 mm in diam. Phyllaries in ca. 5 rows, apically blackish purple, sparsely villous; outer phyllaries narrowly ovate-elliptic, 5-6 × 2-3 mm, apex long acuminate; middle phyllaries elliptic, 6-8 × 1.5-2 mm apex acute; inner phyllaries narrowly elliptic, 8-9 × 1-1.5 mm. Corolla purple, 8-9(-15) mm, tube 4-5(-10) mm, limb 4-5 mm. Achene cylindric, 2.5-4 mm, glabrous. Pappus pale brown; outer bristles ca. 2 mm, scabrid; inner bristles ca. 7 mm. Fl. and fr. Jul-Sep. 2n = 32*.

Alpine grasslands, scree slopes, thickets, forest margins; 3000-5100 m. Gansu, Qinghai, Shaanxi, W Sichuan, SE Xizang, NW Yunnan [Bhutan].