蒲公英风毛菊 pu gong ying feng mao ju

Cyathidium taraxacifolium Lindley ex Royle, Ill. Bot. Himal. Mts. 251, t. 56, f. 2. 1835.

Herbs 15-50 cm tall, perennial. Stem solitary, erect, simple. Basal and lower stem leaves petiolate; petiole 4-6 cm; leaf blade narrowly elliptic or narrowly obovate, 5-15 × 1-2.5 cm, runcinate, pinnately lobed to pinnatisect, abaxially grayish green and densely tomentose, adaxially green and glabrous; lateral lobes 5-7 pairs, triangular-ovate, 6-10 × 4-10 mm, reclinate, margin entire or dentate with 1 or 2 teeth on distal side, apex acute to obtuse and mucronate; terminal lobe triangular, 1-1.5(-2.5) × 0.5-1.5 cm. Upper stem leaves narrowly elliptic to linear, margin dentate. Capitulum usually solitary, terminal on stem. Involucre campanulate, (1-)2.5-3 cm in diam. Phyllaries in 4 or 5 rows, sparsely pilose, apically blackish green, apex long acuminate; outer phyllaries narrowly ovate-elliptic, 9-10 × 1-2 mm; middle phyllaries narrowly ovate-linear, 10-14 × 1-2 mm; inner phyllaries broadly linear, 14-16 × 1-1.5 mm. Corolla purple, 1.5-1.6 cm, tube 7-8 mm, limb 7-8 mm, lobes 4-5 mm. Achene cylindric, 4-4.5 mm, glabrous, apex with a small crown. Pappus pale brown; outer bristles 2-3 mm, scabrid; inner bristles 1.1-1.2 cm. Fl. and fr. Jul-Sep.

Thickets; 3800-4700 m. Xizang, NW Yunnan (Gongshan) [Bhutan, NE and NW India, Kashmir, Nepal].