新疆兔唇花 xin jiang tu chun hua

Herbs perennial. Stems 6-20 cm, base branched, rigid, creamy white, pubescent; nodes swollen, tomentose, basal ones lanate, surrounded by persistent brown sheaths. Basal leaves long petiolate, upper stem leaves sessile; basal leaf blade broadly cuneate, margin incised; lobules awned, apex 3-cleft; upper leaf blade broadly cuneate or flabellate, 8-12 × 6-10 mm, herbaceous, sparsely whitish hispid, glandular puberulent, base cuneate, margin regularly serrate apically; teeth ca. 2 mm, awned, apex obtuse. Verticillasters 2-flowered; bracteoles spinescent, 0.5-2 cm, glabrous. Calyx narrowly campanulate, 0.8-1.5 cm, whitish hispid, glandular puberulent; teeth 4 (or 5), to slightly longer than calyx, oblong-lanceolate, leathery, netted, obtuse, apex short spinescent. Corolla rose, ca. 2 cm, puberulent; upper lip straight, ca. 12 × 4 mm, oblong, rounded, villous outside, with ovate, apically retuse lobules; lower lip ca. 10 × 5 mm, middle lobe oblong, ca. 5 mm, apex 2-lobulate; lateral lobes ca. 3 mm, lanceolate, rounded. Anterior filaments ca. 1.1 cm, posterior ca. 9 mm. Fl. Jun, fr. Aug.

* Xinjiang (Ürümqi Shi).