总裂叶堇菜 zong lie ye jin cai

Basionym: Viola incisa Turczaninow, Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 15: 302. 1842; V. fissifolia Kitagawa; V. ×jettmarii Handel-Mazzetti.

Leaf blade ovate, 1.5-3 × 1-1.5 cm, accrescent at fruiting, to 5 cm, both surfaces densely white puberulous, base broadly cuneate, margin irregularly emarginate-lobed to emarginate-fid, lower lobes irregularly 2- or 3-dentate, apex ± acute. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Jun-Oct.

Forest margins on mountains, grasslands in logged forest areas, grasslands on mountain slopes; below 1300 m. Hebei, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mongol, Shaanxi, Shanxi [Mongolia, Russia].

One of us (Nikitin) prefers to treat Viola incisa as a distinct species, at least in Russia, and considers V. fissifolia also possibly to be a separate species.