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Pedicularis cristatella Pennell et Li

具冠马先蒿

Description from Flora of China

Pedicularis cristata Maximowicz (1888), not Vitmann (1789).

Herbs annual, to 50 cm tall, woody basally, not drying black. Roots woody. Stems 1--6, erect or outer ones ascending, branched apically or unbranched, with 4 dense yellow lines of hairs. Leaves opposite or in whorls of 5; petiole to 1 cm, densely yellow villous; leaf blade oblong-lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, 2--3 X 0.7--1.5 cm, abaxially villous along veins, adaxially short bristly, pinnatisect; segments 6--12 pairs, lanceolate, pinnatifid, serrate. Inflorescences long spicate, to 20 cm, with flowers in whorls of 3 or 4, often interrupted; proximal bracts leaflike. Calyx white, membranous, slightly cleft anteriorly; lobes 5, ± equal, narrowly triangular-lanceolate, entire. Corolla reddish purple; tube erect, 8--9 mm; galea bent apically, ca. 1 cm, distinctly crested; beak bent downward, ca. 6.5 mm; lower lip ca. 1.1 X 1.3 cm, middle lobe not hoodlike. Anterior filament pair densely pubescent. Capsule compressed, ovoid, ca. 1.4 cm X 6 mm, obliquely apiculate. Fl. Jun--Jul, fr. Jul.

* Cliffs, meadows in valleys, open or shrubby grasslands; 1900--3000 m. SW Gansu, N Sichuan.


 

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