瓶头草 ping tou cao

Bellis stipitata Labillardière, Nov. Holl. Pl. 2: 55. 1806; Lagenophora billardierei Cassini.

Herbs, annual, 3.5-12 cm tall. Leaves rosulate, persistent, petiole short, blade obovate to broadly spatulate, 1.2-3 × 0.7-1.3 cm, surfaces sparsely to moderately villosulous, base attenuate, margin repand-dentate, teeth mucronulate, villosulous, apex rounded to obtuse; scape bracts (leaves) 1 or 2, linear, 1-1.5 × 3-5 mm. Capitula 4-7(-9) mm in diam., solitary. Involucre campanulate, ca. 2.5 × 3-5 mm; phyllaries 3- or 4-seriate, margin narrowly scarious, hyaline, entire, apex acute to obtuse, purple tinged, outer oblanceolate, ca. 1 mm, mid oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic, ca. 2 mm, inner linear-lanceolate. Ray florets 3- or 4-seriate, purplish, lamina linear, 1.5-2.5 × ca. 0.5 mm, enrolled by anthesis; disk florets 1.2-1.5 mm, tube 0.3-0.5 mm, limb shortly funnelform, 0.5-1 mm, 4- or 5-lobed, lobes deltate to triangular. Achenes asymmetrically oblanceolate, flattened, 2.5-3.5 mm, apex and beak glandular. Fl. and fr. Sep.

Forest margins, grasslands on slopes; 1700-1800 m. Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Taiwan [India, Indonesia, Vietnam; Australia].