半抱茎风毛菊 ban bao jing feng mao ju

Herbs 50-70 cm tall, perennial. Stem solitary, erect, apically branched, wingless, apically with brown articulate hairs. Leaves green and golden gland-dotted, margin dentate-denticulate. Lower stem leaves petiolate; petiole 3-5 cm, winged, base enlarged, auriculate, and semiamplexicaul; leaf blade narrowly ovate-elliptic, 6-9 × 2.5-4 cm, both surfaces green, abaxially gland-dotted and sparsely arachnoid, adaxially ± sparsely gland-dotted and glabrous, base subcordate to truncate, apex acute. Middle and upper stem leaves sessile, gradually smaller upward on stem, base auriculate and semiamplexicaul. Capitula numerous, to 4-10 in a clustered corymbiform synflorescence at end of branches, shortly pedunculate or sessile. Involucre cylindric to narrowly campanulate, 5-7(-10) mm in diam. Phyllaries in 5 or 6 rows, brown, leathery, glabrous, apex obtuse to acuminate; outer phyllaries ovate, 3-4 × 2-2.5 mm; middle phyllaries narrowly ovate, 4-8 × 1.5-2 mm, apex acute to obtuse; inner phyllaries linear, 8-10 × 1-1.5 mm. Receptacle bristles 5-7 mm. Corolla purple, 1.2-1.3 cm, tube 6-7 mm, limb 5.5-6.5 mm, lobes 3-3.5 mm. Achene gray with dark black spots, 3-3.5 mm, glabrous. Pappus dirty white; outer bristles scabrid, 2-4 mm; inner bristles 9-10 mm. Fl. and fr. Sep.

● Montane grasslands; ca. 2700 m. NW Yunnan (Dêqên).