哈密毛茛 ha mi mao gen

Herbs perennial. Roots fibrous, subequally thick. Stems 20--30 cm, glabrous, branched from base. Basal leaves ca. 7; petiole 5--7 cm, glabrous; blade 3-lobed or 3-cleft to middle, orbicular-oblate or oblate, 2.5--3.5 × 2--3 cm, papery, glabrous, base broadly cuneate or rounded; central lobe suboblong, 3-lobed or 3-dentate above; lateral lobes obliquely ovate, incised-dentate. Stem leaves subsessile or sessile, palmately 5--9-partite, lobes lanceolate. Monochasium terminal, 2-flowered; bracts leaflike. Flowers ca. 2.5 cm in diam. Pedicel 5--7 cm, yellow puberulent above. Receptacle glabrous. Sepals 5, ovate, 5--7 mm, yellowish puberulent. Petals 5, orbicular-ovate, 8--10 × 6--8 mm, abaxially yellow puberulent below, apex rounded. Stamens numerous; anthers oblong. Aggregate fruit globose, ca. 6 mm in diam.; carpels numerous. Achene ovoid, ca. 2 × 1.6 mm, glabrous; style persistent, ca. 1 mm, curved. Fl. and fr. Jun.

* Valleys; ca. 2000 m. E Xinjiang (Hami Xian).