灰毛香青(原变种) hui mao xiang qing (yuan bian zhong)

Stems erect or ascending, 3-6 cm, with dense leaf rosettes 1.5-3 cm in diam.; internodes 0.5-1 cm. Rosette leaves obovate-oblong or spatulate, 5-15 × 3-5 mm; lower leaves oblanceolate-oblong, 1-1.5 cm × 2-3 mm, base sometimes glabrous, attenuate, decurrent into short wing along stems, margin flat, apex obtuse or acute; upper leaves narrow, erect or adnate to stems, acuminate. Capitula 5-10, congested to corymb; peduncle short, lanate. Involucre ca. 10 mm in diam.

● Alpine slopes and rocks; ca. 4000 m. SW Sichuan (Mianning), NW Yunnan (Zhongdian).