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13. Corydalis sect. Flaccidae C. Y. Wu, Acta Bot. Yunnan. 18: 399. 1996.
裂冠紫堇组 lie guan zi jin zu
Herbs, perennial, with an elongate fibrous rootstock, sometimes rhizomatous. Apex of rootstock with scales, a lax rosette of leaves, and 1 to several axillary stems. Stems leafy above. Inner petals with narrow dorsal crests. Stigma rounded with (6 or)8 papillae, usually only basalmost pair geminate. Capsule linear-oblong, not explosively dehiscent. Seeds in 1 row.
Twelve species: China, one species (Corydalis flaccida) widespread from C Nepal east to SW Sichuan; 12 species (11 endemic) in China.
Here, this section is taken in a wider sense than in FRPS, including species previously placed in Corydalis sect. Capnogorium.
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Radical leaves bipinnate or tripinnate; cauline leaves simply pinnate to tripinnate |
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All leaves simply pinnate |
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Flowers cream or yellow |
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Flowers pink or purple |
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Flowers not crested; petals concolorous. |
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67 C. straminea |
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Flowers clearly crested, lower petal with red margins. |
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68 C. cheilosticta |
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Sepals 5-8 mm; crest of outer petals very broad. |
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69 C. lophophora |
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Sepals 1-3 mm; crest of outer petals low or absent |
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Leaves tripinnate; spur thin, 5-9 mm. |
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64 C. flaccida |
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Leaves bipinnate; spur thick, 8-15 mm |
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Lower bracts like upper leaf, to 3.5 cm; lower pedicels 20-30 mm; sepals ca. 3 mm; inner petals tipped with dark purple. |
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66 C. regia |
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Lower bracts shorter; lower pedicels 10-15 mm; sepals 1-2.5 mm; inner petals not or obscurely darker tipped. |
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65 C. livida |
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Lower leaves obovate-oblong; lowermost pair of leaflets smaller than second pair; stems 10-30 cm |
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Lower leaves ovate; lowermost pair of leaflets ca. as large as or larger than second pair; stems 28-60 cm |
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8 (7) |
Flowers purple; crest 1-2 mm. |
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71 C. praecipitorum |
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Flowers yellow or white with purple blotch at apex; crest 2-4 mm |
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Flowers yellowish white, lower petal with a large purplish blotch across apex and crest; spur almost as long as limb; stems often leafy also in lower 1/2. |
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72 C. crista-galli |
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Flowers pure yellow; spur less than 1/2 as long as limb; lower 1/2 of stem leafless. |
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70 C. grandiflora |
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10 (7) |
Flowers ca. 2 cm, very narrow, without crest; spur ca. 1.5 mm wide. |
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75 C. hebephylla |
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Flowers 2-2.7 cm, broad with very broad crests; spur ca. 2.5 mm wide |
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Flowers purple. |
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74 C. sigmantha |
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Flowers yellow. |
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73 C. potaninii |
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