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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.


1 Radical leaves bipinnate or tripinnate; cauline leaves simply pinnate to tripinnate   (2)
+ All leaves simply pinnate   (7)
       
2 (1) Flowers cream or yellow   (3)
+ Flowers pink or purple   (4)
       
3 (2) Flowers not crested; petals concolorous.   67 C. straminea
+ Flowers clearly crested, lower petal with red margins.   68 C. cheilosticta
       
4 (2) Sepals 5-8 mm; crest of outer petals very broad.   69 C. lophophora
+ Sepals 1-3 mm; crest of outer petals low or absent   (5)
       
5 (4) Leaves tripinnate; spur thin, 5-9 mm.   64 C. flaccida
+ Leaves bipinnate; spur thick, 8-15 mm   (6)
       
6 (5) Lower bracts like upper leaf, to 3.5 cm; lower pedicels 20-30 mm; sepals ca. 3 mm; inner petals tipped with dark purple.   66 C. regia
+ Lower bracts shorter; lower pedicels 10-15 mm; sepals 1-2.5 mm; inner petals not or obscurely darker tipped.   65 C. livida
       
7 (1) Lower leaves obovate-oblong; lowermost pair of leaflets smaller than second pair; stems 10-30 cm   (8)
+ Lower leaves ovate; lowermost pair of leaflets ca. as large as or larger than second pair; stems 28-60 cm   (10)
       
8 (7) Flowers purple; crest 1-2 mm.   71 C. praecipitorum
+ Flowers yellow or white with purple blotch at apex; crest 2-4 mm   (9)
       
9 (8) 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.   72 C. crista-galli
+ Flowers pure yellow; spur less than 1/2 as long as limb; lower 1/2 of stem leafless.   70 C. grandiflora
       
10 (7) Flowers ca. 2 cm, very narrow, without crest; spur ca. 1.5 mm wide.   75 C. hebephylla
+ Flowers 2-2.7 cm, broad with very broad crests; spur ca. 2.5 mm wide   (11)
       
11 (10) Flowers purple.   74 C. sigmantha
+ Flowers yellow.   73 C. potaninii

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