Corydalis sect. Cheilanthifoliae in Flora of China @ efloras.org

4. Corydalis sect. Cheilanthifoliae Lidén, Opera Bot. 88: 28. 1986.

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Corydalis subsect. Cheilanthifoliae (Lidén) C. Y. Wu & Z. Y. Su; C. "Gruppe" Racemosae Fedde; C. sect. Racemosae (Fedde) Z. Y. Su; C. subsect. Racemosae (Fedde) Fedde.

Herbs, annual, biennial, or perennial, glabrous. Stems erect or diffuse, ± leafy and branched, rarely scapose. Leaves bipinnate. Bracts small, entire. Flowers in elongated racemes, yellow to pale, usually with short obtuse spur. Stigma 2-armed, arms deflexed-geniculate. Capsule oblong to narrowly linear; elaiosome not membranous and easily detached from seed.

Six species: Bhutan, China, India (Sikkim), Japan; six species (four endemic) in China.

1 Subscapose with (apparently) leafless flowering stems, shorter than to ca. as long as basal leaves; (short-lived) perennial (2)

+ Plants with leafy flowering stems longer than basal leaves; annual or biennial (3)

2 (1) Herbs glaucous; primary pinnae ovate, in 5 or 6 pairs; ultimate lobes obtuse; spur usually almost as long as limb of upper petal. 22 C. moupinensis

+ Herbs green; primary pinnae 6-12 pairs, narrowly lanceolate; ultimate lobes pointed; spur usually distinctly shorter than limb. 21 C. cheilanthifolia

3 (1) Fruit contorted; seeds ovoid (4)

+ Fruit straight; seeds rounded in profile; annual, with slender, diffusely branched stems (5)

4 (3) Seeds pitted, ca. 1 mm; inner petals dark tipped; raceme 20-40(-70)-flowered; biennial (rarely perennial? or annual), with firm, erect, conspicuously winged stem. 23 C. ophiocarpa

+ Seeds finely reticulate, to 1.3 mm; inner petals pale; raceme fewer flowered; ?annual, rather slender and diffuse. 24 C. campulicarpa

5 (3) Outer petals broadly crested; seeds pitted. 25 C. giraldii

+ Outer petals narrowly crested; seeds tuberculate. 26 C. racemosa

Lower Taxa