松潘报春 song pan bao chun

Herbs perennial, forming tufts with many rosettes. Leaves forming a rosette; petiole indistinct to nearly as long as leaf blade, narrowly winged; leaf blade obovate to obovate-oblong, 8--25 X 3--8 mm, sparsely minutely glandular, base attenuate, margin nearly entire to obscurely denticulate above middle, apex rounded to obtuse. Scapes 1.5--5 cm, densely glandular; umbels capitate, many flowered; bracts green, narrowly oblong, 2.5--3.5 mm, base slightly gibbous, apex obtuse. Pedicel 0.5--1 mm. Flowers heterostylous. Calyx green, tubular-campanulate, 3--5 mm, densely glandular puberulous, parted to ± middle; lobes oblong, glandular ciliolate, apex obtuse. Corolla pink to pale bluish purple; tube ca. as long as calyx; limb 5.5--7 mm wide; lobes broadly obovate, deeply emarginate. Pin flowers: stamens slightly above middle of corolla tube; style ca. as long as tube. Thrum flowers with positions reciprocal. Capsule elliptic, ca. as long as calyx. Fl. May.

* Grassy slopes; 3000--3500 m. NW Sichuan (Pingwu Xian, Songpan Xian)