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1. Verbascum Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 177. 1753.

毛蕊花属 mao rui hua shu

Celsia Linnaeus.

Herbs, annual, biennial, or perennial. Leaves usually simple, alternate, basally rosulate. Inflorescences terminal, spicate, racemose, or paniculate. Calyx 5-lobed. Corolla usually yellow, rarely purple or white; tube short; limb rotate; lobes 5, subequal, radiate. Stamens 4 or 5; filaments usually woolly; anthers 1-loculed, confluent, anterior anthers linear-oblong or reniform, posterior anthers reniform or transverse. Ovary 2-loculed. Capsule septicidal. Seeds numerous, conically cylindric, 6-8-ribbed.

About 300 species: Asia, Europe; six species in China.

1 Flowers solitary at each node; plants glandular or eglandular hairy. (2)

+ Flowers 2 to several at each node; plants stellate hairy. (4)

2 (1) Corolla purple; capsule with bulging veins 1 Verbascum phoeniceum

+ Corolla yellow; capsule without bulging veins. (3)

3 (2) Calyx 5-6 mm; stamens 5 2 Verbascum blattaria

+ Calyx 3-4.5 mm; stamens 4 3 Verbascum chinense

4 (1) Inflorescences spicate 4 Verbascum thapsus

+ Inflorescences paniculate. (5)

5 (4) Plants sparsely stellate hairy; stem leaves adaxially green 5 Verbascum chaixii subsp. orientale

+ Plants densely stellate hairy; stem leaves adaxially not green 6 Verbascum songaricum

Lower Taxa

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