《中国植物志》|| 川续断科 DIPSACACEAE ||星首花组 Sect. Asterocephalus Coult. ||阿尔泰蓝盆花 Scabiosa austroaltaica Bobrov

2. 阿尔泰蓝盆花
Scabiosa austro-altaica Bobr. in Kom., Fl. URSS. 24: 457. pl. 7, f. 1. 1957 (addenda); Φиπат. Φπ. казахст. ССР. 8: 296. 1965.
亚灌木，高20-60厘米；根粗壮，木质，具数分枝；茎直立，1-4节，很少具叶，疏生短柔毛，茎顶生1-3个头状花序。叶多基生，轮廓长圆形，长5-10厘米，叶柄长1-2厘米，叶片羽状深裂，小裂片线状披针形，具缺刻；茎生叶较小，2-3对，对生，叶片两面疏生短柔毛，脉腋多少被刚毛，羽状全裂，小裂片披针形，长5-20毫米，宽2-3毫米。头状花序花时径2-3厘米，结果时球形，径1.5-2厘米；总苞苞片长卵形，向上渐收缩渐狭，较边缘花短2-3倍，疏生短绒毛；苞片窄披针形，上1/3处成龙骨状，下部线形，疏生细柔毛；小总苞长3-4毫米，上部具8窝孔，基部密生白色糙硬毛，冠宽2-3毫米；萼刺刚毛5条；花冠蓝紫色，外面紧贴短柔毛。花期6-7月，果期8月。
本种模式标本采自苏联哈萨克东部，并谓我国新疆鄂尔齐斯河流域有分布，我们未采到标本，仅根据原始文献记载及《哈萨克斯坦植物志》第8卷译出，以备参考。

《Flora of China》|| Dipsacaceae || Scabiosa ||阿尔泰蓝盆花 Scabiosa austroaltaica

2. Scabiosa austroaltaica Bobrov in Schischkin & Bobrov, Fl. URSS. 24: 457. 1957.

阿尔泰蓝盆花 a er tai lan pen hua

Lomelosia austroaltaica (Bobrov) Soják; Scabiosa xinjiangensis Y. K. Yang, G. J. Liu & J. K. Wu.

Subshrubs, 20-60 cm tall. Caudexes robust, lignified, several branched. Stems erect, nodes 1-4, densely puberulent. Leaves mostly basal; basal leaves petiolate; petiole 1-2.5 cm; leaf blade oblong, 3-10 × 0.7-3 cm, pinnatifid; segments linear-lanceolate, incised, pubescent. Cauline leaves smaller, 2- or 3-paired, sessile, sparsely puberulent, ± setose at axils of veins, pinnatisect; segments lanceolate, 5-20 × 1.5-3 mm. Capitula 2-3 cm in diam. at anthesis, globose and 1.5-2 cm in diam. in fruit; involucral bracts narrowly ovate, 1/3-1/2 as long as marginal ray flowers, sparsely puberulent, apex acuminate; bracts linear-lanceolate, upper 1/3 carinate, lower part linear, sparsely villous; involucels 3-4 mm, above with 8 pits, base densely white hirsute, crown 2-3 mm wide. Calyx 5-setose. Corolla blue-purple, outside adpressed puberulent. Fl. Jun-Jul, fr. Aug.

Grassy slopes; ca. 1200 m. Xinjiang [E Kazakhstan].