腺毛香简草 xian mao xiang jian cao

Herbs erect. Stems ca. 30 cm, subglabrescent basally, white floccose-villous at apex. Petiole 0.7-3 cm, glandular floccose-pilose; basal leaves ca. 3.5 cm, base attenuate, decurrent; blades of upper leaves ovate-oblong to oblong, 6-9 × 2.5-4 cm, papery, adaxially brown or olive green, puberulent, dusty hairy, pubescent on midrib, abaxially sparsely villous on midrib, base rounded to cuneate, margin shallowly crenate-serrate, apex acuminate to obtuse. Racemes ca. 8 cm; rachis white villous; bracts ovate-subulate, ca. 7 × 2.5 mm, margin white ciliate, apex caudate-acuminate. Pedicel ca. 2 mm, glandular pilose. Calyx ca. 4 mm, glandular pilose, inconspicuously tufted hairy at each tooth sinus; teeth lanceolate, ca. 2.3 mm. Corolla limb purple when dry, ca. 8 mm, puberulent, villous-barbate annulate inside; tube funnelform, throat ca. 4 mm wide; upper lip longer, ca. 2.2 mm; lower lip lobes subequal, circular, ca. 1.8 mm. Stamens included, anterior 2 ca. 3 mm. Ovary glabrous. Fl. Nov.

* Fujian.