折苞风毛菊 zhe bao feng mao ju

Saussurea elongata Candolle var. recurvata Maximowicz, Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg Divers Savans 9: 167. 1859; S. parasclerolepis A. I. Baranov & Skvortsov; S. recurvata var. angustata H. C. Fu; S. sclerolepis Nakai & Kitagawa var. parasclerolepis (A. I. Baranov & Skvortsov) C. Y. Li.

Herbs 40-100 cm tall, perennial. Stems solitary or several, erect, simple, glabrous. Basal and lower stem leaves petiolate; petiole 3-7 cm; leaf blade narrowly triangular-ovate to narrowly triangular-hastate, (3-)10-15 × (2-)2.5-6 cm, thick, pinnately lobed, both surfaces green to grayish green, thick, abaxially sparsely pubescent, adaxially sparsely strigose, base hastate to truncate, apex acute to acuminate; lateral lobes unequally incised, dentate, or denticulate, rarely entire. Middle stem leaves shortly petiolate, smaller; leaf blade pinnately divided or dentate. Upper stem leaves sessile, narrowly elliptic to linear, smaller, undivided. Capitula 3-5, in a clustered corymbiform synflorescence, shortly pedunculate. Involucre campanulate, 1-1.5 cm in diam. Phyllaries in 5-7 rows; outer phyllaries ovate, apex long acuminate and usually reflexed; middle phyllaries narrowly ovate-elliptic, apex acute and mucronate; inner phyllaries usually purple, linear, apex acute to obtuse. Corolla purple, 1.2-1.5 cm, tube 6-8 mm, limb 6-7 mm. Achene cylindric, 4-5 mm, glabrous. Pappus dirty white; outer bristles 2-3 mm, scabrid; inner bristles ca. 1 cm. Fl. and fr. Jul-Sep. 2n = 26.

Forest margins, thickets, grasslands; 1000-2900 m. Gansu, Heilongjiang, Jilin, ?Liaoning, Nei Mongol, Ningxia, ?Qinghai, Shaanxi [Korea, Mongolia, Russia (Far East)].