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Boeica yunnanensis (H. W. Li) K. Y. Pan

翼柱短筒苣苔

Description from Flora of China

Boeicopsis yunnanensis H. W. Li, Acta Bot. Yunnan. 4: 245. 1982.

Subshrubs. Stems to 12 cm, densely villous. Petiole 1-2 cm, densely hirsute; leaf blade ovate to ovate-elliptic, 6.5-7.5 X 4-5 cm, adaxially hirsute, abaxially pubescent, densely hirsute along veins, base broadly cuneate to rounded, margin serrate, apex acute to broadly acute; lateral veins ca. 6 on each side of midrib. Cymes ca. 9-flowered; peduncle 5.5-6.5 cm, densely villous to hirsute; bracts 2, linear-lanceolate, to 5 mm. Pedicel ca. 5 mm. Calyx segments linear-lanceolate, ca. 5 X 1 mm, outside hirsute to villous, margin minutely serrulate. Corolla 5-6.5 mm, outside glabrous; tube saccate at base, ca. 3 mm; lobes subequal, suborbicular, ca. 2 X 2 mm. Filaments ca. 1.5 mm, glabrous; anthers dehiscing poricidally; staminode ca. 1 mm. Disc inconspicuous. Pistil glabrous; ovary ovoid, ca. 1.2 mm. Style with 2 broad and flat winglike appendages, ca. 2.5 mm. Fruit unknown. Fl. Jun.

* Grassy areas under forests on slopes; ca. 1300 m. SE Yunnan (Maguan Xian).


 

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