蓼叶风毛菊 liao ye feng mao ju

Herbs ca. 70 cm tall, perennial. Stem solitary, erect, apically few branched, narrowly winged, sparsely arachnoid or glabrous. Basal and lower stem leaves withered at anthesis, long petiolate. Middle stem leaves sessile, narrowly ovate-elliptic to narrowly elliptic, 5-8 × 1-2 cm, abaxially grayish green or white and densely tomentose, adaxially light green and scabrid, base decurrent, margin subentire to denticulate, apex acuminate. Upper stem leaves sessile, narrowly elliptic to linear, gradually smaller upward on stem. Capitula 4-10, in a lax racemiform synflorescence, long pedunculate. Involucre narrowly campanulate, (5-)7-9 mm in diam. Phyllaries in 4 or 5 rows, straw-colored to reddish brown, glabrous or sparsely villous, apex acuminate; outer phyllaries triangular-ovate, ca. 3 × 2 mm; middle phyllaries narrowly ovate-elliptic, 3-5 × 1-2 mm; inner phyllaries narrowly elliptic, ca. 5 × 1 mm. Corolla white, ca. 1.2 cm. Achene ca. 2 mm. Pappus straw-colored; outer bristles scabrid. Fl. Sep.

● Forests. NW Yunnan.