天目珍珠菜 tian mu zhen zhu cai

Herbs perennial, glabrous, 35--80 cm tall, without creeping rhizomes. Stems erect, purplish at base, subterete, simple or branched. Basal leaves early deciduous, spatulate to oblanceolate or oblong, 4--10 X 2.5--3.5 cm, base cuneate, apex obtuse to acute. Stem leaves alternate, sessile or subsessile, narrowly lanceolate to linear, 6--13 X 0.4--1.7 cm, densely red glandular punctate near margin, base cuneate, apex acute to acuminate. Racemes 10--25 cm; bracts subulate, 3--5 mm. Pedicel 3--6 mm. Calyx lobes ovate-elliptic, ca. 1.7 mm, glandular ciliate, red glandular striate abaxially and at apex, margin membranous, apex acute. Corolla white; tube ca. 1 mm; lobes ovate to ovate-elliptic, ca. 3 X 1.6 mm, red glandular punctate, apex obtuse. Stamens included; filaments adnate to base of corolla lobes, free parts ca. 0.5 mm; anthers dorsifixed. Ovary ovoid; style ca. 2 mm. Capsule subglobose, 2--3 mm in diam. Fl. May-Jun.

* Streamsides, woodland margins, ravines; 600--1000 m. NW Zhejiang.