长枝附地菜 chang zhi fu di cai

Plants ?perennial. Stems diffuse, with long branches from base upward, ca. 60 cm tall, minutely crisped strigose. Basal leaves unknown. Lower stem leaves long petiolate; leaf blade ca. 5.8 × 2 cm, pubescent, base broadly truncate, apex obtuse, short apiculate; lateral veins 2 pairs, indistinct; upper leaves reduced in size upward, narrowly ovate, 1.5-4 cm, apex acute. Inflorescences 12-50 cm in fruit, minutely strigose; bracts in lower part, leaflike. Pedicel 1.5-6 mm, minutely strigose. Calyx lobes linear-lanceolate, ca. 1.2 mm, sparsely pubescent, margin long ciliate. Corolla glabrous; tube ca. 1.5 mm; faucal appendages low trapeziform, ca. 0.4 mm; limb ca. 5 mm wide; lobes orbicular-obovate. Anthers oblong, ca. 0.5 mm. Pistil ca. 1 mm. Nutlets subulate, trigonous-tetrahedral, smooth, glabrous, adaxially with sharp angles; abaxial surfaces deltate-ovate, ca. 1 × 1 mm; stipe ca. 0.2 mm. Fl. and fr. Oct.

* Sichuan.