白花附地菜 bai hua fu di cai

Myosotis nankotaizanensis Sasaki, Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Taiwan 21: 155. 1931; Omphalodes formosana Masamune.

Herbs perennial, cespitose, strigose, with obliquely spreading rhizomes. Stems erect, 10-15 cm. Basal leaves petiolate; upper stem leaves sessile; leaf blade oblanceolate to long elliptic, 7-15 cm, base attenuate, apex obtuse to ± acute. Inflorescences 1 or 2, terminal, racemose, 3-7 cm, 7-15-flowered; ebracteate or only upper part with 1 or 2 bracts. Pedicel erect, 3-7 mm. Flowers widely spaced. Calyx lobes lanceolate, 2-4 mm, apex acute. Corolla white; tube ca. 2 mm; limb 5-6 mm wide; lobes obovate, ca. 2 mm. Stamens inserted on upper 2/3 of corolla tube; anthers long elliptic, ca. 3 mm, apex obtuse. Nutlets brown, subulate, trigonous-tetrahedral, ca. 1.5 mm, smooth.

* E Taiwan (Nanhu Dashan).