《中国植物志》|| 菊科 COMPOSITAE ||雪莲亚属 Subgen. Amphilaena (Stschegl.) Lipsch. ||唐古特雪莲 Saussurea tangutica Maxim.

28.唐古特雪莲 漏紫多保
Saussurea tangutica Maxim. in Bull. Acad. Sci. Petersb. 27: 489. 1881 et in Mel. Biol. 11(2-3): 247. 1881; Hemsl in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 35: 187. 1902; Ling in Contr. Inst. Bot. Nat. Acad. Peiping 3(4): 149. p. p. 1935; Lipsch. in Journ. Bot. URSS 52(5): 661. 1967 et Gen. Saussurea 69. 1979; S. Y. Hu in Quart. Journ. Taiwan Mus. 21(1-2): 17. 1968. pro synon. ; 西藏植物志4:867. 1985;黄土高原植物志5:415. 1989;青海植物志3 : 449. t. 97: 1-2. 1996.——S. obvallata(DC.) Sch. -Bip. var. orientalis Diels in Bot. Jahrb. 29: 623. 1901; Hand. -Mazz., Symb. Sin. 7(4): 1161. 1936 et in Act. Hort. Gothob. 12: 342. 1938; Ling in Contr. Inst. Bot. Nat. Acad. Peiping 6(2): 92. 1949.
多年生草本，高16-70厘米。根状茎粗，上部被多数褐色残存的叶柄。茎直立，单生，被稀疏的白色长柔毛，紫色或淡紫色。基生叶有叶柄，柄长2-6厘米；叶片长圆形或宽披针形，长3-9厘米，宽1-2.3厘米，顶端急尖，基部渐狭，边缘有细齿，两面有腺毛；茎生叶长椭圆形或长圆形，顶端急尖，两面有腺毛；最上部茎叶苞叶状，膜质，紫红色，宽卵形，顶端钝，边缘有细齿，两面有粗毛和腺毛，包围头状花序或总花序。头状花序无小花梗，1-5个，在茎端密集成直径3-7厘米的总花序或单生茎顶。总苞宽钟状，直径2-3厘米；总苞片4层，黑紫色，外面被黄白色的长柔毛，外层椭圆形，长5毫米，宽2毫米，顶端钝，中层长椭圆形，长1厘米，宽2.5毫米，顶端渐尖，内层线状披针形，长1.5厘米，宽2毫米，顶端长渐尖。小花蓝紫色，长1厘 米，管部与檐部等长。瘦果长圆形，长4毫米，紫褐色。冠毛2层，淡褐色，外层短， 糙毛状，长5毫米，内层长，羽毛状，长1厘米。花果期7-9月。
分布河北（小五台山）、山西（五台）、甘肃、青海（称多、同仁、兴海、大通、湟中、互助、祁连、门源）、四川（康定、小金、贡嘎岭）、云南（中甸）、西藏（拉萨、安多、巴青）。生于高山流石滩、高山草甸，海拔3800-5000米。模式标本采自甘肃。

《Flora of China》|| Asteraceae || Saussurea ||唐古特雪莲 Saussurea tangutica

45. Saussurea tangutica Maximowicz, Bull. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pétersbourg. 27: 489. 1882.

唐古特雪莲 tang gu te xue lian

Saussurea tangutica var. bayankaraensis W. Y. Wang.

Herbs 6-20(-30) cm tall, perennial, caespitose. Caudex simple or branched. Stems solitary or several, 2.5-4 mm in diam., erect, simple. Rosette and lower stem leaves petiolate; leaf blade narrowly elliptic, 3-9 × 0.7-2.3 cm, both surfaces green, abaxially pilose, adaxially scabrous but glabrescent, margin sinuate-dentate, apex acute and mucronate. Middle stem leaves sessile, 3.3-5 × 0.6-1.2 cm. Uppermost stem leaves ovate and boat-shaped, 3-4.5 × 1.5-2.5 cm, membranous, enclosing synflorescence and forming a lanternlike head of 3.5-7 cm in diam., both surfaces yellowish rose to purple, margin denticulate, apex acuminate. Capitula 1-5, solitary or in a condensed corymbiform synflorescence 3-7 cm in diam., subsessile. Involucre campanulate, 1-3 cm in diam. Phyllaries in ca. 4 rows, blackish purple, densely villous, apex acuminate; outer phyllaries elliptic, (5-)10-13 × 2-5 mm; middle phyllaries narrowly elliptic, 11-15 × 2-3 mm; inner phyllaries linear, 13-16 × 1-2 mm. Receptacle bristles 0.5-2 mm. Corolla purple, (1-)1.4-1.5 cm, tube (5-)6.5-8 mm, limb (5-)7-7.5 mm, lobes (2.8-)4.2-4.8 mm. Achene straw-colored, sometimes tinged purple and with blackish spots, cylindric, 4.5-5.5 mm. Pappus dirty white; outer bristles 2-4 mm; inner bristles 0.9-1.1 cm. Fl. and fr. Jul-Sep.

● Alpine scree slopes, alpine meadows; 3600-5300 m. Gansu, Qinghai, NW Sichuan, Xizang.