洮河风毛菊 tao he feng mao ju

Herbs 25-40 cm tall, perennial. Stems several, straw-colored, 3-5 mm in diam., erect, apically branched, sparsely arachnoid, glabrescent. Basal leaves almost withered at anthesis. Lower stem leaves petiolate; petiole 1-3 cm; leaf blade narrowly ovate-triangular, 7.5-9.5 × 2-4 cm, abaxially light green, gland-dotted, and tomentose but glabrescent, adaxially dark green and glabrous, base shallowly cordate, truncate, or cuneate, margin dentate, apex acute. Middle and upper stem leaves shortly petiolate, smaller, base truncate. Uppermost leaves subsessile; leaf blade narrowly ovate to linear, margin entire. Capitula numerous, in a clustered corymbiform or paniculiform synflorescence, shortly pedunculate. Involucre cylindric or obconic, 8-10 mm in diam. Phyllaries in 4 or 5 rows, arachnoid, apically purplish; outer phyllaries ovate-triangular, 3-4 × 1.5-2 mm; middle phyllaries ovate-triangular, 4-8 × 1.8-2.2 mm, apex acuminate and mucronate; inner phyllaries 8-10 × 1-1.5 mm, apex acute to obtuse. Receptacle bristles subulate, 3-5 mm. Corolla purple to pink, 1.2-1.3 cm, tube 6.5-7 mm, limb 5.5-6 mm, lobes 4-4.5 mm. Achene ca. 3 mm, glabrous, apex with a small crown. Pappus dirty white; outer bristles 2.5-4 mm, scabrid; inner bristles 8-10 mm. Fl. Jul.

● Montane meadows and grasslands; 2700-2800 m. Gansu (Jonê, Lintan).