紫毛龙胆 zi mao long dan

Perennials 20-30 cm tall, densely white and purple pubescent. Stems purple, ascending to erect, slender, branched from base. Basal leaves sessile, oblong to subspatulate, 4-6 × 1-1.5 mm, apex acute. Stem leaves widely spaced; leaf blade ovate to cordate, 5-10 × 3-9 mm, shorter than internodes, base rounded, apex acute, vein 1. Flowers terminal, solitary, sessile. Calyx tube narrowly obconic, 6-9 mm, membranous, prominently 5veined; lobes linear-lanceolate, 3-4 mm, apex acuminate, midvein outside prominent. Corolla purple, tubular, 3-4 cm; lobes ovate-triangular, 5-7 mm, margin entire, apex acute; plicae oblong, 5-6 mm, apex rounded and fringed. Stamens inserted at basal part of corolla tube, unequal, 2 longer and ca. 2.1 cm, 3 shorter and ca. 1.5 cm; anthers ellipsoid, 2-2.5 mm. Ovary narrowly ellipsoid, 1.3-1.5 cm; gynophore to 9 mm, stout. Style 1-1.2 cm; stigma lobes linear. Fl. Apr.

* Valleys; ca. 800 m. SE Sichuan.