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4. Corydalis sect. Cheilanthifoliae Lidén, Opera Bot. 88: 28. 1986.
小花黄堇组 xiao hua huang jin zu
Corydalis subsect. Cheilanthifoliae (Lidén) C. Y. Wu & Z. Y. Su; C. "Gruppe" Racemosae Fedde; C. sect. Racemosae (Fedde) Z. Y. Su; C. subsect. Racemosae (Fedde) Fedde.
Herbs, annual, biennial, or perennial, glabrous. Stems erect or diffuse, ± leafy and branched, rarely scapose. Leaves bipinnate. Bracts small, entire. Flowers in elongated racemes, yellow to pale, usually with short obtuse spur. Stigma 2-armed, arms deflexed-geniculate. Capsule oblong to narrowly linear; elaiosome not membranous and easily detached from seed.
Six species: Bhutan, China, India (Sikkim), Japan; six species (four endemic) in China.
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Subscapose with (apparently) leafless flowering stems, shorter than to ca. as long as basal leaves; (short-lived) perennial |
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Plants with leafy flowering stems longer than basal leaves; annual or biennial |
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2 (1) |
Herbs glaucous; primary pinnae ovate, in 5 or 6 pairs; ultimate lobes obtuse; spur usually almost as long as limb of upper petal. |
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22 C. moupinensis |
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Herbs green; primary pinnae 6-12 pairs, narrowly lanceolate; ultimate lobes pointed; spur usually distinctly shorter than limb. |
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21 C. cheilanthifolia |
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3 (1) |
Fruit contorted; seeds ovoid |
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Fruit straight; seeds rounded in profile; annual, with slender, diffusely branched stems |
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4 (3) |
Seeds pitted, ca. 1 mm; inner petals dark tipped; raceme 20-40(-70)-flowered; biennial (rarely perennial? or annual), with firm, erect, conspicuously winged stem. |
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23 C. ophiocarpa |
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Seeds finely reticulate, to 1.3 mm; inner petals pale; raceme fewer flowered; ?annual, rather slender and diffuse. |
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24 C. campulicarpa |
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Outer petals broadly crested; seeds pitted. |
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25 C. giraldii |
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Outer petals narrowly crested; seeds tuberculate. |
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26 C. racemosa |
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