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2. Chimaphila monticola Andres, Acta Horti Gothob. 1: 174. 1924.
川西喜冬草 chuan xi xi dong cao
Herbs suffruticose, to 15 cm tall. Rhizomes long creeping. Aerial stems 10–20 cm long. Leaves opposite and verticillate; petiole 4–7 mm; leaf blade deep green, with paler midvein adaxially, narrowly to broadly elliptic, 1.5–4.6 cm × 6–25 mm, subleathery, base cuneate, margin few toothed, apex acute, mucronate. Flower solitary, or inflorescence 2- or 3-flowered, white, ca. 1 cm in diam.; peduncle 3–7 cm, papillose; bracts elliptic, ca. 3 mm. Sepals obovate, 1.5–2 × ca. 2 mm. Petals oblong-orbicular, 7–8 × ca. 5 mm. Stamens ca. 4 mm. Style sessile, obconoidal; stigma peltate. Capsules depressed-globose, ca. 5 mm in diam. Fl. Sep, fr. unknown.
Moss-rich virgin forests, mossy ground beneath Tsuga canopies; 2600–3000 m. Sichuan, Taiwan.
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Plant to 15 cm tall; largest leaf broadly elliptic, 2.3–4.6 × 1.3–2.5 cm; inflorescence (1- or)2- or 3-flowered. |
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Plant to 10 cm tall; largest leaf narrowly elliptic, 1.5–2.5 × 0.6–1.1 cm; inflorescence 1- or 2-flowered. |
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2b subsp. taiwaniana |
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