重齿风毛菊 chong chi feng mao ju

Saussurea anochaete Handel-Mazzetti; S. katochaete var. caulescens Lipschitz; S. katochaetoides Handel-Mazzetti; S. rohmooana C. Marquand & Airy Shaw.

Herbs 3-10(-20) cm tall, perennial, stemless or shortly stemmed. Caudex stout, simple or few branched. Rosette leaves petiolate; petiole 1.5-6(-10) cm; leaf blade elliptic, obovate, or ovate, 2.5-11 × 1.5-4.5 cm, abaxially white or grayish white and densely tomentose, adaxially green and glabrous, base cuneate to rounded, margin sharply and narrowly serrate-dentate, apex acuminate, acute, or obtuse. Capitulum 1(or 2-4), in center of leaf rosette, sessile or pedunculate. Involucre broadly campanulate, 2.5-4 cm in diam. Phyllaries in 4 or 5 rows, brown to black, glabrous, apex acute to acuminate; outer phyllaries triangular-ovate, 9-15 × 4-6 mm; middle phyllaries ovate to narrowly ovate-elliptic, 12-15 × 4-6 mm; inner phyllaries narrowly elliptic to linear, 1.5-2 × 0.2-0.4 cm. Receptacle bristles yellowish, subulate, 1-3 mm. Corolla purple, 1.3-1.9 cm, tube 7-12 mm, limb 6-8 mm, lobes 4-5 mm. Achene dark brown, cylindric, 4-6 mm, obtusely 4- or 5-ribbed. Pappus pale brown; outer bristles 3-3.5 mm, usually reflexed and appressed to achene, scabrid; inner bristles 1.3-1.5 cm, erect. Fl. and fr. Jul-Oct.

Alpine meadows and pastures, scree slopes, thicket and forest margins; 2200-4800 m. Gansu, Qinghai, W Sichuan, Xizang, NW Yunnan (Dêqên) [Bhutan, India (Sikkim)].