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Lysimachia orbicularis Chen et C. M. Hu

圆瓣珍珠菜

Description from Flora of China

Herbs perennial, glabrous, to 40 cm tall. Stems erect, branched above middle. Leaves alternate, occasionally subopposite in branches; petiole 3--5 mm; leaf blade ovate-lanceolate, 4--5 X 1.5--2 cm, abaxially glaucous, with or without few obscure dots, adaxially green, brown glandular punctate near margin, base cuneate, obscurely undulate, apex subacuminate. Leaves on branches subsessile, smaller. Racemes terminal, 9--12 cm; bracts linear-lanceolate to subulate, slightly shorter than pedicels. Lowest pedicels slightly angular, to 1 cm, gradually reduced upward. Calyx lobes lanceolate, ca. 4.5 mm, reddish brown striate, margin membranous. Corolla white, ca. 6 mm; tube ca. 2.5 mm; lobes suborbicular, ca. 3.5 mm wide, densely reddish brown striate near apex, base clawed; sinus between lobes rounded. Stamens exserted; filaments adnate to base of corolla lobes; anthers ovate, dorsifixed, ca. 1 mm. Ovary glabrous; style 5.5--6 mm. Capsule subglobose, ca. 4 mm in diam. Fl. Jun-Jul.

* Ravines; ca. 2200 m. SW Sichuan (Dechang Xian).


 

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