卵叶山柳菊 luan ye shan liu ju

Herbs, perennial, 30-100 cm tall, with short and thick rhizomes. Stem solitary to few fascicled, erect, branched apically, basally brown long hirsute and apically under capitulum glabrous or with capitate stipitate glandular hairs mixed with stellate hairs or sometimes mixed with simple hairs, glabrescent. Basal and lower stem leaves withered in fruit. Middle stem leaves sessile, ovate, ovate-lanceolate, elliptic-lanceolate, or narrowly elliptic, 4-9 × 1-3 cm, abaxially sparsely hirsute on veins, adaxially glabrous, base auriculate and semiamplexicaul, margin entire or minutely toothed and sparsely ciliate, apex acuminate. Upper stem leaves similar to middle stem leaves but gradually smaller. Synflorescence sparsely corymbosely paniculiform, with capitula moderate in number. Involucre campanulate, ca. 1 cm. Phyllaries in 3 rows, dark green to ± dark green, abaxially usually with simple hairs on midvein intermixed with capitate stipitate glandular hairs and stellate hairs; outer phyllaries linear-lanceolate, ca. 2 × 0.7 mm, apex acute to obtuse; middle phyllaries linear-lanceolate, ca. 4 × 1 mm, apex acute to obtuse; inner phyllaries broadly linear, ca. 1.1 cm × 1.2 mm, apex obtuse. Florets yellow. Achene dark brown, cylindric, ca. 4 mm, with 8-10 ribs, basally attenuate. Pappus dirty white, ca. 6 mm. Fl. and fr. Jul-Sep.

Open places in forests; 1700-2000 m. Xinjiang [Kazakhstan].