《中国植物志》|| 菊科 COMPOSITAE ||雪兔子亚属 Subgen. Eriocoryne (DC.) Hook. f. ||云状雪兔子 Saussurea aster Hemsl.

6.云状雪兔子
Saussurea aster Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 30: 115. t. 5. 1894 et 35: 185. 1902; Pamp., Fl. Caracorum 210. t. 7. fig. 3. 1930; Schmid in Fedde Repert, Sp. Nov. 31: 68. 1932: Lipsch in Nov. Syst. Pl. Vas. 1964: 319. 1964 et 1966: 226. 1966 et Gen. Saussurea 50. 1979; S. Y. Hu in Quart. Journ. Taiwan Mus. 20(3-4): 316. 1967: 西藏植物志4: 875. 1985.
无茎多年生一次结实的莲座状草本。根肉质。根状茎粗，直径1-1.4厘米，被稠密的叶柄残迹。叶莲座状排列，线状匙形、椭圆形或线形，长1.5-3厘米，宽1.5-4毫米，顶端钝，边缘全缘，基部楔形渐狭成短柄，柄基扩大，两面灰白色，被稠密的或褐色的绒毛，中脉1条，在叶下面明显。头状花序无小花梗，多数，在莲座状叶丛中密集成半球形、直径为2.5厘米的总花序。总苞圆柱状，直径5毫米；总苞片3-4层，近等长，卵形至线形，长4-6毫米，宽1.5-3毫米，顶端急尖，外面被白色绒毛。小花紫红色，长6.5毫米，细管部长3.5毫米，檐部长3毫米。瘦果褐色，圆柱状，长2毫米。冠毛鼠灰色，2层，外层短，糙毛状，长3毫米，内层长，羽毛状，长7毫米。花果期6-8月。
分布青海、西藏（日土、班戈、双湖、南木林、比如、丁青、八宿、芒康、左贡）。 生于高山流石滩；海拔4500-5400米。模式标本采自西藏。

《Flora of China》|| Asteraceae || Saussurea ||云状雪兔子 Saussurea aster

10. Saussurea aster Hemsley, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 30: 115. 1894.

云状雪兔子 yun zhuang xue tu zi

Herbs 2-7 cm tall, perennial, monocarpic, stemless or shortly stemmed. Taproot conic, fleshy. Caudex 0.5-1.5 cm in diam., simple, covered with remains of petioles. Rosette leaves petiolate; leaf blade narrowly elliptic, spatulate, or linear, 0.5-2(-4) × 0.1-0.4(-1) cm, abaxially white and densely sericeous to lanate, adaxially grayish green or yellowish green, base attenuate, margin entire, apex obtuse. Capitula 5-25, in center of leaf rosette, in a hemispheric synflorescence 2.5-5 cm in diam., sessile. Involucre cylindric to campanulate, 5-8 mm in diam. Phyllaries in 3 or 4 rows, apically purple and villous, margin purplish, hyaline, and entire or apically with 1 or 2 lateral teeth, apex acute to acuminate; outer phyllaries narrowly oblong to obovate, 8-10 × 2.5-3 mm; middle and inner phyllaries linear, 9-10 × 0.5-2 mm. Receptacle bristles 1-2 mm. Corolla rose-purple, 7-9 mm, tube 3-4 mm, limb 4.5-5 mm, lobes 1.5-2 mm. Achene brown or gray with dark spots, cylindric to fusiform, 4-6 mm, glabrous. Pappus in 2 rows; outer bristles dirty white, 3-4 mm; inner bristles brown, 7-8 mm. Fl. and fr. Jun-Aug.

Alpine scree slopes; 3900-5400 m. Qinghai, W Sichuan, Xizang [?NW India, Kashmir].