卷苞风毛菊 juan bao feng mao ju

Saussurea sclerolepis Nakai & Kitagawa; S. sclerolepis f. pinnatipartita Nakai & Kitagawa.

Herbs 10-60 cm tall, perennial. Stems solitary or few, erect, simple or few branched, sparsely strigose or glabrous. Basal and lower stem leaves petiolate; petiole 5-14 cm, winged; leaf blade ovate to narrowly ovate-elliptic, 5-15 × 2-5 cm, both surfaces green and glabrous, base cuneate, subtruncate, or cordate, margin sinuate-dentate, apex acuminate. Middle and upper stem leaves sessile or with a narrowly winged short petiole; leaf blade narrowly elliptic, base truncate to cordate-sagittate, apex acuminate. Capitulum solitary, terminal on stem or few in a lax corymbiform synflorescence, pedunculate. Involucre broadly campanulate, (1-)1.5-2(-2.5) cm in diam. Phyllaries in 6 or 7 rows, apically purple, apex acuminate and reflexed; outer phyllaries ovate to ovate-triangular, ca. 4 × 4 mm; middle phyllaries narrowly ovate-elliptic, ca. 1.7 × 0.4 cm; inner phyllaries narrowly elliptic to linear, ca. 1.8 × 0.3 cm, apex obtuse. Corolla purplish red, 1.5-1.8 cm, tube ca. 8 mm, limb ca. 1 cm. Achene pale brown, obconic, 5-5.5 mm, ribbed, glabrous. Pappus dirty white; outer bristles to 6 mm, scabrid; inner bristles ca. 1.5 cm. Fl. and fr. Jul-Sep.

● Montane grasslands, forest margins, ravines; 1700-1900 m. Hebei, Liaoning, Nei Mongol.

Saussurea sclerolepis was published in November 1934, whereas S. tunglingensis was published in May of the same year.