焕镛报春 huan yong bao chun

Herbs perennial, lacking basal bud scales at anthesis. Leaves forming a rosette; petiole 4--12 cm, narrowly winged; leaf blade ovate, 3--5 X 2.5--3.5 cm, abaxially cream-yellow farinose, adaxially glabrous, base obtuse to subrounded, margin denticulate to crenulate, apex obtuse to acute. Scapes to 30 cm, scarcely farinose toward apex; umbels usually 2, superimposed, 4--8-flowered; bracts linear-lanceolate, 6--8 mm. Pedicel 1--3 mm, ± farinose. Flowers heterostylous. Calyx tubular-campanulate, 8--9 mm, parted to 2/3; lobes lanceolate, yellow farinose inside and along margin. Corolla bluish purple; tube ca. 1.3 cm; limb ca. 2 cm wide; lobes broadly obovate to suborbicular, 7--8 X ca. 7.5 mm, margin entire. Pin flowers: stamens ca. 5 mm above base of corolla tube; style ca. 7 mm, slightly longer than calyx. Capsule cylindric, longer than calyx. Fl. Jun.

* W Sichuan (Maowen Xian)