康普灯心草 kang pu deng xin cao

Plants perennial. Rhizome short. Stems 7--30 cm, thin, striate. Basal leaves 1 or 2; leaf sheath scarious at margin, auricles distinct; leaf blade linear, 4--9 × ca. 1 mm, apex obtuse. Inflorescences terminal, 1- or 2-flowered; involucral bract seemingly a continuation of stem, 0.8--2.4 cm. Flowers shortly pedicellate, often bracteate. Perianth segments chestnut brown, lanceolate, veins 3, apex slightly obtuse to acute; outer segments 3--3.5 × ca. 1.2 mm; inner segments ca. 4 × 1 mm. Stamens 6; filaments 2.5--3 mm; anthers 1--1.2 mm. Ovary ellipsoid. Style 1.8--2 mm; stigmas ca. 1.6 mm. Capsule dark golden brown, trigonous oblong, 4--4.5 mm, 1-loculed, apex mucronate. Seeds grayish brown, ovoid-oblong, ca. 0.8 mm. Fl. Jun--Jul, fr. Jul--Aug.

* Grasslands on mountain slopes; ca. 3500 m. Yunnan.