假盐地风毛菊 jia yan di feng mao ju

Herbs or subshrubs, 10-60 cm tall, perennial. Rootstock apically branched. Stems solitary or several, erect or ascending, simple or much branched. Lower stem leaves petiolate; petiole to 1.5 cm; leaf blade oblong, elliptic, rhombic, or narrowly ovate, 0.4-3.5(-10) × 0.2-1.2(-4) cm, fleshy, both surfaces grayish green and scabrid, base cuneate, margin dentate, denticulate, or entire, apex acute. Middle and upper stem leaves sessile, narrowly obovate, elliptic, or linear-oblong, margin entire. Capitula 1-5, on stem and branch ends, solitary or in a corymbiform synflorescence, shortly pedunculate. Involucre obconic, 6-8 mm in diam. Phyllaries in 5 or 6 rows, straw-colored, purple in apical part, villous, apex acuminate; outer phyllaries ovate-elliptic, 2-3 × 1.5-2 mm; middle phyllaries narrowly ovate-elliptic, 3-7 × 1.5-2 mm; inner phyllaries narrowly elliptic to linear, 7-8 × 1-1.5 mm. Receptacle bristles subulate, 7-8 mm. Corolla purplish red, 1.3-1.5 cm, tube 7-8 mm, limb 7-8 mm. Achene ca. 4 mm, apex with a short crown. Pappus straw-colored; outer bristles ca. 3 mm; inner bristles 9-10 mm. Fl. and fr. Jun-Aug.

Saline soils and gravelly shores near rivers and lakes; 2700-2800 m. NW Gansu, Nei Mongol, Qinghai, Xinjiang [Mongolia].