乐叶附地菜 yue ye fu di cai

Herbs perennial. Stems erect, branched, ca. 55 cm tall, spreading hispidulous. Basal leaves solitary; petioles long; basal leaf blades narrowly ovate, ca. 4.8 × 2.5 cm, papery, strigose, base truncate-rounded, margin entire, apex truncate-obtuse, apiculate; veins 3, inconspicuous. Cauline leaves short petiolate, oblong, gradually reduced upward, apex acute. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, 8-24 cm; rachis slender, sparsely strigulose, without bracts. Pedicel 0.8-2 mm, strigulose. Calyx campanulate, ca. 1.1 mm; lobes narrowly oblong, ca. 2 mm wide, outside strigulose, apex acute. Corolla deep blue, glabrous; tube ca. 0.8 mm; throat appendages crescent-shaped; limb ca. 1.6 mm in diam.; lobes ovate-quadrangular, ca. 0.7 mm. Anthers oblong, ca. 0.25 mm; filaments subequal. Pistil included, ca. 0.7 mm. Nutlets black, inverted subulate trigonous-tetrahedral, ca. 1 mm, glabrous, shiny, acute ribbed.

* Margins of evergreen forests; ca. 1000 m. Guangxi.