Saussurea alpina

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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Family Compositae

The largest family of flowering plants , the Compositae (Asteraceae), comprising about 1,100 genera and more than 20,000 species and characterized by many small flowers arranged in a head looking like a single flower and subtended by an involucre of bracts. A head may consist of both ray flowers and disk flowers, as in the sunflower, of disk flowers only, as in the burdock, or of ray flowers only, as in the dandelion.

Genus Saussurea

Perennials , 5-120+ cm; herbage tomentose or glabrescent , not spiny . Stems erect or ascending , simple or branched. Leaves basal or cauline (sometimes cauline only), sessile or petiolate ; blade margins entire or dentate to pinnately lobed , faces glabrous to densely tomentose, glandular or eglandular . Heads discoid , borne singly or in corymbiform arrays. Involucres ovoid to campanulate or ± turbinate . Phyllaries many in 3-5(-10+) series, subequal to strongly unequal, appressed or not, ovate to lanceolate, margins entire, toothed , or lobed, apices obtuse or acute, appendaged or not, not spine-tipped. Receptacles flat or convex , epaleate, smooth , usually subulate-scaly, sometimes bristly or naked. Florets 10-20; corollas white to blue or purple, tubes slender, abruptly expanded to throats , lobes linear ; anther bases short-tailed, apical appendages linear, acute; style branches: fused portions with minutely hairy subterminal nodes, distinct portions oblong to linear, short-papillate. Cypselae oblong, ± angled , cylindric or 4-5-angled, ribs (when present) smooth or roughened, apices entire, glabrous or minutely glandular, attachment scars basal; pappi usually of 2 series, outer of readily falling, short bristles , inner persistent or falling as unit , of basally connate , usually longer , plumose bristles. x = 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19?.

Species 300-400: North America, Eurasia , 1 in Australia.

Saussurea is a notoriously difficult, largely Asiatic genus with species boundaries often indistinct.[1]

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,500 meters (0 to 8,202 feet).[2]

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Saussurea alpina< /i> (L.) Dc. • Serratula Alpina

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: Data Providers: Govaerts World Compositae Checklist A-G, IPNI, Flora of China Checklist, Tropicos, Euro+Med. GCC LSID: urn :lsid:compositae.org:names:442CDBC6-1B41-4D1F-9EA9-C55B6DB12100

Last scrutiny: 15-Aug-09

Similar Species

Members of the genus Saussurea

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 13 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

S. alpina (Alpine Sawwort) · S. amara (Saussurea) · S. americana (American Saw-Wort) · S. angustifolia (Narrowleaf Saw-Wort) · S. angustifolia var. angustifolia (Narrowleaf Saw-Wort) · S. angustifolia var. yukonensis (Narrowleaf Saw-Wort) · S. angustifolia yukonensis (Narrowleaf Saw-Wort) · S. densa (Clustered Sawwort) · S. nuda (Nutty Saw-Wort) · S. tilesii (Tiles' Saussurea) · S. tschuktschorum (Tschuktsch's Saussurea) · S. viscida (Sticky Saw-Wort) · S. weberi (Weber's Saw-Wort)

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Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 29, 2007:

• Jyväskylä University Museum - The Section of Natural Sciences, Vascular plant collection of Jyvaskyla University Museum
• Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Vascular Plant Herbarium, Oslo
• The Swedish Museum of Natural History
• , Herbarium of Oskarshamn
• The Swedish Museum of Natural History
• , Plants
• UK National Biodiversity Network, Scottish Borders Biological Records Centre - SWT Scottish Borders Local Wildlife Site Survey data 1996-2000 - species information

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2657654
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Ast-11939
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2671206
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:242074-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 447638

Footnotes

1. David J. Keil "Saussurea". in Flora of North America Vol. 19, 20 and 21 Page 58, 83, 165. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Mean = 608.160 meters (1,995.276 feet), Standard Deviation = 439.360 based on 5,750 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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