玉龙山银莲花 yu long shan yin lian hua

Leaves 5--9; petiole 4--13 cm × 2--3 mm, pubescent or densely villous; leaf blade 3-parted or 3-lobed, pentagonal or broadly ovate, 1--5.5 × 1--6 cm, herbaceous or papery, pubescent or villous, base truncate, sometimes subcordate; central segment 3-lobed, obscurely so, or undivided, rhombic-ovate or broadly rhombic, sparsely obtusely dentate; lateral lobes unequally 2-lobed, obliquely broadly cuneate or flabellate. Scapes 2--9, 3--15(--35) cm, villous or pubescent; cyme 1-flowered. Involucral bract blade unequally slightly 3-lobed or undivided, narrowly rhombic or oblong-lanceolate, 0.7--3 cm, pubescent. Pedicel 1--7 cm, puberulent. Sepals 5 or 6, white, yellow, or blue, narrowly obovate or elliptic, 8--16 × 8--10 mm, sparsely appressed pubescent, basal veins 3, vein anastomoses absent. Stamens 2--3 mm; filament lanceolate. Pistils 2.5--3.5 mm; ovary linear-lanceolate or narrowly ovoid, equaling or slightly longer than style, sericeous or pubescent. Achene body ovoid, 2.8--3.7 × 1.8--2.2 mm, without ribs, villous, hairs ca.1 mm; style 1.4--1.6 mm, straight or slightly curved. Fl. Apr.--Jul.

* Abies forests, grassy slopes, rocks by streams; 2600--3900 m. NW Yunnan, SW Sichuan.