阔舌火石花 kuo she huo shi hua

Herbs, perennial; rhizome glabrous. Leaves in basal rosette; petiole 3-7 cm, subglabrous; leaf blade obovate-lanceolate or obovate-oblong, 5-9 × 1.5-2 cm, papery, abaxially gray lanuginous, adaxially glabrous, base attenuate, margin pinnatilobate, apex obtuse to acuminate. Scapes 10-25 cm, arachnoid lanate; bracts 1 or 2, linear, ca. 1 cm. Capitula solitary, nodding, terminal, radiate, ca. 4 cm in diam.; involucre broadly campanulate; phyllaries 4-seriate, arachnoid lanate at least at apices, outer phyllaries lanceolate, 0.8-1 cm × ca. 2.5 mm, innermost phyllaries oblong-lanceolate, 2-2.5 cm × 6-7 mm. Marginal female florets bilabiate, outer lips light yellow, elliptic, 18-20 × 6-8 mm, inner lips ca. 1.2 cm, coiled, staminode apices hamate; central bisexual florets many, bilabiate, corolla ca. 1.3 cm. Achenes fusiform, ca. 5 mm, glabrous, multiribbed; pappus yellow-white, 8-10 mm. Fl. Sep.

● Rock fissures. Yunnan (Qiaojia).