川鄂獐耳细辛 chuan e zhang er xi xin

Anemone henryi Oliver, Hooker’s Icon. Pl. 16: t. 1570. 1887; Hepatica yamatutae Nakai.

Plants 4--6 cm tall at anthesis, to 12 cm tall in fruit. Rhizome ca. 2.5 cm, ca. 3 mm in diam. Leaves ca. 6; petiole 4--12 cm, densely hairy; leaf blade broadly ovate to suborbicular-reniform, 1.5--5.5 × 2--8.5 cm, villous, glabrate, base cordate, inconspicuously 3-lobed to parted to middle; lobes margin 1- or 2-toothed, apex acute. Scapes 1 or 2, suberect, hairy; involucral bracts ovate 5--11 × 3--6 mm, pilose, margin entire or 3-toothed, apex acute. Sepals 6, obovate-oblong to narrowly elliptic, 8--12 × 3--5.5 mm, abaxially pilose. Stamens 2--3.5 mm; anthers ca. 0.5 mm. Pistils ca. 10; ovary pilose. Styles curved to outside. Fl. Apr--May.

* Forests, grassy slopes; 1300--2500 m. W Hubei, N Hunan, Shaanxi, Sichuan.