Saussurea iceberg has dense flowers and leaves, basal leaves and stem leaves are sessile, and the leaves are ovoid or ovoid, with a length of 14 cm and a width of 2-3.5 cm. The tip is blunt or sharp, the base is downward, the edge has sharp teeth, and both sides are hairless. The uppermost leaf bract is leaflike, membranous, pale yellow, broadly ovoid, 5.5-7 cm long and 2-7 cm wide, surrounding the raceme, with sharp teeth at the edge.
There are 10-20 heads, clustered into spherical racemes at the top of the stem, with no pedicels or short pedicels. The involucre is hemispherical with a diameter of 65438 0 cm; The involucral bracts have 3-4 layers, with purple-brown edges, sharp apex, sparsely villous outer layer, oblong outer layer, length 1. 1cm, width 5mm, middle layer and inner layer lanceolate, length 1.5- 1.8cm and width 2 mm..
The floret is purple, 1.6 cm long, the tube is 7 mm long, the eaves are 9 mm long, and the achene is oblong and 3 mm long. The crown hair is dirty white and has two layers, the outer layer is small and rough, 3 mm long, and the inner layer is long and feathery, with a length of 1.5 cm.
Extended data
Distribution: It is distributed in shopping malls and neixiang in southern Henan, Huangshan, Xiuning, Huoshan and Jinzhai in southern Anhui, and Tianmu Mountain in Jian 'an in northwest Jiangxi. Hua Kai and Longquan in the south, Qingyuan, Suichang and Wuyishan in the north of Fujian, Lushan, Jing 'an, Xiushui, Yifeng and Jinggangshan in the north and west of Jiangxi, Luotian in the east of Hubei, Yidu in the west,
From Yichang, Enshi, Yi 'en, Jianshi, Badong, Xingshan, Shennongjia and Zhuxi in the east of Hunan, to Wenhengshan, Liuyang, Lingxian, Yizhang, Chengbu, Suining, Xinning, Sangzhi, Dayong, Yongshun, Taoyuan, Hexian, Quanzhou, Xing 'an, Damiaoshan and Shanglin the south-east of Guangxi.
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