金阳厚喙菊 jin yang hou hui ju

Herbs to 15 cm tall, perennial, with taproot. Stem solitary, erect, apically branched and with lanceolate bracts, with long stiff blackish hairs. Leaves sessile, narrowly elliptic, isomorphic, 7-8 × ca. 2 cm, abaxially with long reddish brown to brown hairs on veins, base auriculate and semiamplexicaul, margin coarsely dentate to ± lobed, apex acuminate. Synflorescence corymbiform, with ca. 9 capitula. Capitula erect, with ca. 7 florets. Involucre narrowly cylindric, ca. 1.5 × 0.5 cm. Phyllaries dark green, abaxially with long stiff blackish hairs on midvein; outer phyllaries rather few, ovate to lanceolate, 2-5 × ca. 1 mm, apex acute to obtuse; inner phyllaries lanceolate, apex acute to obtuse. Florets yellow. Achene brown, ca. 7 mm, with 8 unequal ribs, apex truncate. Pappus brownish, ca. 7 mm. Fl. and fr. Sep.

● Mountain slopes; ca. 3400 m. S Sichuan (Jinyang).