多脉柳叶菜 duo mai liu ye cai

Epilobium roseum var. subsessile Boissier, Fl. Orient. 2: 749. 1872; E. almaatense Steinberg; E. nervosum Boissier & Buhse; E. smyrnaeum Boisser & Balansa.

Herbs perennial, with filiform epigeous stolons with widely spaced small leaves, or shorter fleshy basal soboles. Leaves subsessile or lower ones with petioles to 2 mm; cauline blade 3.4-6 × 0.9-2.5 cm, lower ones oblong-lanceolate with base broadly cuneate and apex subobtuse, upper ones narrowly ovate to lanceolate with base rounded or subcordate and apex acute to acuminate, margin remotely denticulate with 23-45 teeth per side. Inflorescence strigillose. Stigma clavate. Capsules 3-6 cm, strigillose. Fl. Jun-Aug, fr. Jul-Sep. 2n = 36.

Damp areas near streams, ditches in mountains; 1500-2100 m. Xinjiang [Kazakhstan, Russia; C and SW Asia ].