Saussurea nuda Ledebour (Q3039)

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Saussurea nuda is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Saussurea
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Saussurea nuda Ledebour
Saussurea nuda is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Saussurea

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    taxon/id/Saussurea nuda Ledebour
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    Saussurea nuda Ledebour
    Saussurea nuda
    Ledebour
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2006. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 19: Magnoliophyta: Asteridae, part 6: Asteraceae, part 1. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    saussurée dense (French)
    dwarf sawwort (English)
    chaffless sawwort (English)
    nutty sawwort (English)
    clustered sawwort (English)
    Chaffless or dwarf saw-wort (English)
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    Klinkenberg, B. (ed.). 2010+. E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Plants of British Columbia. Lab. for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. http://www.eflora.bc.ca http://www.eflora.bc.ca/
    1 reference
    Moss, E.H. 1983. Flora of Alberta. 2nd edition, revised by J.G. Packer. University of Toronto Press, Toronto. 687 pp.
    1 reference
    Bennett, B., P.M. Catling, W.J. Cody & G.W. Argus. 2010. New records of vascular plants in the Yukon Territory VIII. Canadian Field Naturalist 124 (1): 1-27. http://canadianfieldnaturalist.ca/index.php/cfn/article/view/1025
    Russian Far East
    Flowering Jun–Aug.
    coastal dunes
    estuaries
    tundra
    alpine
    0–100, 2000–2800 m
    Plants 5–60 cm;
    branched caudices;
    herbage subglabrous to loosely tomentose when young, ± glabrescent, at least proximally.
    Stems usually simple.
    Leaves basal and cauline ± smaller distally, tapered to winged petioles to 7 cm, blades elliptic or lanceolate to ovate, 5–15 cm, bases obtuse to acute, margins subentire to sinuate, dentate or denticulate, apices acute to acuminate;
    distal cauline sessile, ± decurrent.
    Heads 3–20+ in corymbiform to subcapitate arrays;
    (peduncles 0–5 cm).
    Involucres 10–15 mm.
    Phyllaries in 3–4 series subequal or weakly imbricate, linear to lanceolate, abaxial faces dark green, often tinged dark purplish, loosely villous or ± tomentose.
    Receptacles naked.
    Florets 15–20;
    corollas purple, 8–11 mm, tubes 4–6 mm, throats 1.5–2 mm, lobes 3–3.5 mm;
    anthers dark purple.
    Cypselae stramineous, 6–7 mm;
    pappi of white to brownish, outer bristles 1–3 mm, inner 9–10 mm. 2n = 26 (as S. densa).