蓝匙叶银莲花 lan chi ye yin lian hua

Leaves 5--10; petiole 1--4 × ca. 1 cm, villous or densely pubescent; leaf blade undivided to nearly 3-lobed, linear to oblanceolate or ovate-oblong, 2--8 × 1--3 cm, villous, base cuneate-attenuate, margin obtusely or acutely dentate. Scapes 2--8, 3--10 cm, densely pubescent; cyme 1-flowered. Involucral bract blade undivided, linear-lanceolate, 1--3 cm, villous, apex obtuse or acute. Pedicel 1--3 cm, villous. Sepals 5 or 6, bluish white, yellow, reddish orange, reddish violet, or bluish violet, broadly elliptic, 8--14 × 7--12 mm, densely pubescent, basal veins 3--5, vein anastomoses usually absent, sometimes solitary. Stamens yellow, 2.5--3 mm; filament usually linear; anther light, globose, connective broad. Staminodes absent or occasionally present. Pistils light, ovoid, 3--4 mm, villous; style straight. Achene body ovoid, 3--4.5 × ca. 2 mm, without ribs, villous, hairs ca.1 mm; style almost straight, ca. 2.5 mm.

Rhododendron forests, scrub, alpine meadows, grassy slopes, streamsides; 2500--5000 m. SW Gansu, S Qinghai, Sichuan, E and S Xizang, Yunnan [Bhutan, NE India, Nepal, Sikkim].