武素功雪兔子 wu su gong xue tu zi

Herbs 1.5-2 cm tall, perennial, polycarpic, almost stemless. Caudex slender, trailing, usually branched, usually with several sterile leaf rosettes and flowering stems, apically covered with remains of petioles. Rosette leaves petiolate; petiole purple, base widened; leaf blade ovate, fan-shaped, spatulate, or orbicular, (1-)3-10 × (1-)2-7 mm, abaxially grayish green and densely arachnoid tomentose, adaxially green and sparsely arachnoid or glabrous, base cuneate, margin entire or crenulate, apex rounded. Capitula 3-8, terminal in center of leaf rosette, in a hemispheric synflorescence 1-2.5 cm in diam., sessile. Involucre narrowly campanulate, 3-5 mm in diam. Phyllaries in 2 or 3 rows, membranous, apically purple or brown, apex acute to acuminate and dentate; outer phyllaries narrowly elliptic-oblong, 6-7 × 2-3 mm, apically sparsely arachnoid; middle and inner phyllaries narrowly elliptic to narrowly obovate, 6-8 × 1-2.5 mm. Receptacle without bristles. Corolla 6-8 mm, tube 3-4 mm, limb 3-4 mm, lobes 1.5-2 mm. Achene dark brown, obconic, 3.5-4 mm, smooth, glabrous. Pappus pale yellowish brown, in 1 row; bristles 6-7 mm, plumose. Fl. Jul-Aug.

● Scree slopes, gravelly or sandy areas; 4800-5200 m. SE Xinjiang (Ruoqiang).