葶花 ting hua

Stems 15-25 cm tall, densely puberulent. Petiole 1-5 mm; basal leaves 4-6; leaf blades 3-6 × 2-3.5 cm, broadly cuneate, densely gray or brown strigose brown-glandular, base rounded to truncate, margin crenate above base, apex obtuse; stem leaves sessile, 1-3-paired, reduced, ovate-lanceolate, ca. 6 × 3 mm, margin entire. Cymes densely glandular pubescent; peduncle 1-10 mm; floral leaves similar to stem leaves or reduced; bracts sessile, purple-red to purplish blue, ± lanceolate, 2-5 × 1-3 mm; bracteoles linear, 1-2 mm. Pedicel 2-3 mm. Calyx ca. 2 × 3 mm, densely glandular puberulent, glandular outside, to ca. 5 × 5 mm, abaxially purplish in fruit, 2-lipped to 1/2 or more. Corolla purple-blue, to 8 mm, scattered brown glandular outside, glabrous inside; tube ca. 4 × 1.2 mm; upper lip ca. 4 × 5 mm, middle lobe to 2 mm wide; lower lip ca. 5 mm. Nutlets ca. 1 mm in diam. Fl. Jul-Aug, fr. Sep-Oct.

* Forests, slopes, thickets, hills; 2500-3700 m. Yunnan

Lower Taxa

• Skapanthus oreophilus var. elongatus (Handel-Mazzetti) C. Y. Wu & H. W. Li
• Skapanthus oreophilus var. oreophilus