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Didymocarpus niveolanosus D. Fang et W. T. Wang

绵毛长蒴苣苔

Description from Flora of China

Plants stemless. Leaves basal; petiole to 1 cm; leaf blade narrowly ovate, 3.4-4.6 X 1.7-2 cm, papery, densely white woolly, base broadly cuneate to rounded, margin repand-crenate, apex acute to rounded; lateral veins ca. 5 on each side of midrib. Cymes 5-10-flowered; peduncle 4.5-6 cm, white woolly; bracts free, narrowly triangular to linear, 3-3.5 mm, densely villous, margin entire. Pedicel 3-13 mm. Calyx actinomorphic, 5-sect from base; segments equal, segments linear-lanceolate, 2-2.5 X 0.5-0.7 mm, outside puberulent, inside nearly glabrous, margin entire. Corolla pink, ca. 1.8 cm, outside sparsely puberulent, inside glabrous; tube nearly tubular, ca. 1.1 cm X 3 mm; adaxial lip ca. 4 mm; abaxial lip ca. 7 mm. Stamens glabrous; filaments ca. 7 mm; anthers ca. 1.5 mm; staminodes 3, central 1 ca. 1 mm, lateral 2 ca. 6 mm. Pistil ca. 9 mm, sparsely puberulent to pubescent; ovary ca. 5.5 mm. Capsule 1-2 cm. Fl. Jul.

* Rocks in shaded areas in valleys; ca. 1100 m. NW Guangxi (Longlin Xian, Napo Xian), SW Guizhou.


 

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