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2. Cerastium parvipetalum Hosokawa, Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Taiwan. 22: 227. 1932.

小瓣卷耳 xiao ban juan er

Description from Flora of China

Herbs annual or biennial, 10--20 cm tall. Stems slender, pilose. Leaves subsessile, ovate-elliptic, ca. 3 × 1 cm, adaxially pubescent, base abruptly attenuate, apex acuminate. Cyme terminal, lax. Pedicel filiform, ca. 8 mm, viscous pilose. Sepals 5, ovate-lanceolate, ca. 3 mm, abaxially pilose, apex acuminate. Petals 5, ovate, ca. 2 mm; claw short; limb apex shortly 2-toothed, teeth acuminate at tip. Stamens 5. Ovary ovoid, ca. 1 mm. Styles 3, ca. 2 mm. Capsule cylindric-globose, ca. 2 mm, apex truncate, 6-toothed.

* Mountains; 1000--1500 m. S Taiwan.


 

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