矮龙胆 ai long dan

Perennials 3-5 cm tall. Stolons 1-3 cm, simple to 3branched. Stems erect, simple. Leaves crowded into a rosette; petiole 3-5 mm; leaf blade spatulate to obovate, 4-11 × 3-6 mm, base narrowed, apex rounded; veins 1-3, abaxially distinct. Flowers solitary. Calyx obconic; tube 6-8 mm, membranous; lobes ovate, 2-3 mm, subequal, herbaceous, apex obtuse to rounded, midvein indistinct. Corolla blue, unspotted, campanulate, less than 1 cm or 2-3.5 cm; lobes broadly ovate, 1.5-2.5 mm, margin entire, apex rounded; plicae broadly ovate and 1-1.5 mm or triangular and 2-2.5 mm, margin entire or denticulate, apex obtuse. Stamens inserted at basal part of corolla tube; filaments 7-9 mm; anthers ellipsoid, 1.5-2 mm. Style 1.5-2.5 mm; stigma lobes oblong. Capsules ovoid-ellipsoid, 1.4-1.6 cm; gynophore to 1.7 cm. Seeds light brown, ellipsoid to subglobose, 1-1.3 mm; seed coat with spongy complex pits. Fl. and fr. Aug-Nov.

3000-4900 m. SW Sichuan, SE Xizang, NW Yunnan [Myanmar]

Lower Taxa

• Gentiana wardii var. emergens (C. Marquand) T. N. Ho
• Gentiana wardii var. micrantha C. Marquand
• Gentiana wardii var. wardii