Saussurea amara var. glomerata (Poiret) Trautvetter (Q3041)

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Saussurea amara var. glomerata is a taxon with the rank variety within the species Saussurea amara
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Saussurea amara var. glomerata (Poiret) Trautvetter
Saussurea amara var. glomerata is a taxon with the rank variety within the species Saussurea amara

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    taxon/id/Saussurea amara var. glomerata (Poiret) Trautvetter
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    Saussurea amara var. glomerata (Poiret) Trautvetter
    Saussurea amara var. glomerata
    (Poiret) Trautvetter
    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
    Saussurea amara var. glomerata
    saussurée agglomérée (French)
    tall sawwort (English)
    Alberta sawwort (English)
    Flowering Jul–Sep.
    Plants 15–60 cm;
    herbage ± scabrous, ± glaucous.
    Stems erect, simple or branched, unwinged.
    Leaves: basal and proximal cauline long-petiolate, smaller distally, blades elliptic, 5–20 cm, bases acute, margins entire to sinuate dentate or shallowly lobed, apices acuminate;
    mid and distal cauline sessile or short-petiolate, ± bractlike, entire.
    Heads 2–8 in corymbiform cymes at tips of main-stems and branches;
    (peduncles to 1–5 cm).
    Involucres ca. 15 mm.
    Phyllaries in 3–4 series, strongly unequal, outer ± lanceolate with dark green toothed or lobed appendages, mid ± linear-oblong with expanded, rounded, pink, membranous, toothed appendages, innermost linear, with or without reduced appendages.
    Receptacles scaly.
    corollas pink or pale-purple, ca. 17 mm;
    anthers dark purple.
    Cypselae ca. 3 mm;
    pappi off-brownish, outer bristles 1–2 mm, inner ca. 10 mm. 2n = 26 (Russia, as S. glomerata).