《中国植物志》|| 菊科 COMPOSITAE ||雪莲亚属 Subgen. Amphilaena (Stschegl.) Lipsch. ||雪莲花 Saussurea involucrata (Kar. & Kir.) Sch.-Bip.

41.雪莲花 雪莲，荷莲 图版6: 7-12
Saussurea involucrata(Kar. et Kir.) Sch.-Bip. in Linnaea 19: 331. 1846; Lipsch. in Journ. Bot. URSS 52(5): 660. 1967 Gen. Saussurea 59. 1979; S. Y. Hu in Quart. Journ. Taiwan Mus. 20(3-4): 330. 1967, sub falso nom. S. involucrata Kar. et Kir.; 中国高等植物图鉴4: 617. 图6648. 1975, sub. nom. S. involucrata Kar. et Kir. ——Aplotaxis involucrata Kar. et Kir. in Bull. Soc. Natur. Mosc. 15 (2): 389. 1842.——Haplotaxis involucrata Kar. et Kir. in Walp. Repert. Bot. System. 2: 669. 1843; Ledeb., Fl. Ross. 2(2): 673. 1845. ——Saussurea karelinii Stschegl. in Bull. Soc. Natur. Mosc. 21 (3): 244. 1848. ——S. involucrata (Kar. et Kir.) Maxim. in Bull. Acad. Sci. Petersb. 27: 489. 1881; Lipsch. in Not. Syst. Herb. Bot. Inst. Acad. Sci. URSS 16: 439. 1954 et Fl. URSS 27: 383. 1962. ——S. lioui Ling in Contr. Inst. Bot. Nat. Acad. Peiping 3(4): 149. 1935.
多年生草本，高15-35厘米。根状茎粗，颈部被多数褐色的叶残迹。茎粗壮，基部直径2-3厘米，无毛。叶密集，基生叶和茎生叶无柄，叶片椭圆形或卵状椭圆形，长达14厘米，宽2-3.5厘米，顶端钝或急尖，基部下延，边缘有尖齿，两面无毛；最上部叶苞叶状，膜质，淡黄色，宽卵形，长5.5-7厘米，宽2-7厘米，包围总花序，边缘有尖齿。头状花序10-20个，在茎顶密集成球形的总花序，无小花梗或有短小花梗。总苞半球形，直径1厘米；总苞片3-4层，边缘或全部紫褐色，先端急尖，外层被稀疏的长柔毛，外层长圆形，长1.1厘米，宽5毫米，中层及内层披针形，长1.5-1.8厘米，宽2毫米。小花紫色，长1.6厘米，管部长7毫米，檐部长9毫米。瘦果长圆形，长3毫米。冠毛污白色，2层，外层小，糙毛状，长3毫米，内层长，羽毛状，长1.5厘米。花果期7-9月。
分布新疆（乌鲁木齐、博克达山、和硕）。生于山坡、山谷、石缝、水边、草甸， 海拔2400-3470米。俄罗斯及哈萨克斯坦有分布。模式标本采自阿拉套山。

《Flora of China》|| Asteraceae || Saussurea ||雪莲花 Saussurea involucrata

43. Saussurea involucrata (Karelin & Kirilov) Schultz Bipontinus, Linnaea. 19: 331. 1846.

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Aplotaxis involucrata Karelin & Kirilov, Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 15: 389. 1842; Saussurea involucrata var. axillicalathina J. S. Li; S. ischnoides J. S. Li; S. karelinii Stscheglejew; S. lioui Y. Ling; S. polylada J. S. Li.

Herbs 15-50 cm tall, perennial. Caudex stout, unbranched, densely covered with fibrous remains of petioles. Stem solitary, 1.5-3 cm in diam., erect, simple. Rosette and stem leaves petiolate; leaf blade narrowly ovate, elliptic, or obovate, 8-13 × 2-4 cm, both surfaces green and glandular hairy, base decurrent, margin denticulate to serrulate, apex acute to obtuse. Uppermost stem leaves sessile, ovate to elliptic, 5.5-12 × 3.5-6.5 cm, membranous, stellately surrounding synflorescence, both surfaces pale yellow. Capitula 10-20, in a hemispheric synflorescence 8-15 cm in diam., sessile or shortly pedunculate. Involucre hemispheric to broadly campanulate, 1-2.5 cm in diam. Phyllaries in 3 or 4 rows, dark or light brown with dark margin, sparsely pubescent, apex acute; outer phyllaries narrowly ovate-elliptic, 8-11 × 2.5-5 mm; middle and inner phyllaries narrowly elliptic to linear, 10-18 × 1.5-2 mm. Receptacle papillose; papillae 0.5-1 mm. Corolla purple, 1.3-1.8 cm, tube 7-9 mm, limb 6-9 mm, lobes 3-5 mm. Achene straw-colored with blackish spots, cylindric, 4.8-6.7 mm, 5- or 6-ribbed. Pappus dirty white; outer bristles 0.5-3 mm; inner bristles 0.8-1.5 cm. Fl. Jul-Aug, fr. Aug-Oct. 2n = 32*.

Mountain slopes, mountain valleys, by water, meadows, in rock fissures; 2400-4100 m. C, N, and W Xinjiang [Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia].

The whole plant of Saussurea involucrata is used medicinally, and the species is endangered in China due to over-collecting.

Most previous records from the Chinese Altay probably belong to Saussurea orgaadayi, but the occurrence of S. involucrata cannot be excluded there.