梨叶橐吾 li ye tuo wu

Stems 1 or 2, erect, 20-25 cm tall, 2.5-3 in diam. at base, glabrous except on synflorescence. Basal leaves petiolate; petiole to 16 cm, glabrous, base sheathed; leaf blade ovate or cordate-ovate, 5-7.5 × 4-6.3 cm, glabrous, both surfaces with prominent palmate veins, base rounded or shallowly cordate, margin regularly dentate, apex caudate-acuminate. Stem leaves 1 or 2, similar but smaller, petiolate, with enlarged sheath. Capitula 3-5, in lax corymb; peduncles 1.3-1.4 cm, distally shortly brown pilose; leaflike bracts linear-lanceolate, 1-1.5 cm, margin entire; supplementary bracts to 15, linear-lanceolate, 10-14 × ca. 1.5 mm wide, glabrous, margin entire. Involucre broadly campanulate, 1.6-2 × ca. 1.5 cm; phyllaries 10-12, in 2 rows, linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, 2-4 mm wide, margin dark brown, apex acute. Ray florets 6-10, yellow; lamina lanceolate, 20-25 × ca. 6 mm, with 6 or 7 brown veins, apex acuminate. Tubular florets numerous, 10-11 mm; tube ca. 4 mm. Pappus brownish or yellow, as long as tubular corolla. Fl. Aug-Oct.

● Mixed forests, between wet rocks; 1600-2500 m. Yunnan (Jingdong).