新疆水八角 xin jiang shui ba jiao

Perennials, erect, ca. 20 cm tall, glabrous throughout. Rhizomes short, horizontal. Stems terete, branched. Leaves sessile, oblanceolate, lanceolate, or linear, 1.5-4 cm X 2-8 cm, narrower on branches, margin sparsely and minutely serrate, apex acute. Pedicel slender, 0.7-1.5 cm. Bracteoles linear. Calyx lobes subulate, 3-4 mm. Corolla 1-1.3 cm; tube cylindric, 6.5-9 mm; lower lobes slightly notched; upper lip lobes suborbicular, slightly notched. Filaments 5-5.5 mm; staminodes 2, anterior, filiform. Capsule globose, ca. 5 X 4 mm. Fl. Jun-Oct.

Marshes. N Xinjiang [Asia, Europe].