中亚婆罗门参 zhong ya po luo men shen

Herbs 20-35 cm tall, perennial. Caudex stout. Stem single, erect, branched from middle third, glabrous, ± lanate, tomentulose, or glabrescent at nodes and below capitula. Basal and lower cauline leaves lanceolate to narrowly oblong, abaxially keeled, sometimes folded along midvein. Capitula solitary to few; peduncle ± inflated, 4-8 mm in diam. Involucre ca. 3 cm at anthesis, 4.5-5 cm in fruit. Phyllaries 8, equaling or shorter than florets. Ligules purple to violet. Outer achenes 2.2-2.7 cm; body whitish, straight to ± curved, 1.8-2.2 mm in diam., tuberculate, with 5 fairly well-differentiated ribs; beak 3-5 mm, stout, apically ± inflated; pappus disk ± tomentulose. Pappus slightly fulvous, 2.2-2.5 cm. Fl. and fr. Apr-Jun.

Mountain slopes, river valleys, sandy soils; 500-2000 m. Xinjiang [Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan].