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Chinese Plant Names | Family List | Scrophulariaceae | Pedicularis

Pedicularis vagans Hemsl. ex Forbes et Hemsl.

蔓生马先蒿

Description from Flora of China

Herbs perennial, drying black. Stems numerous, more than 40 cm, prostrate, repent to climbing, glabrous. Basal leaves fernlike; petiole to 25 cm; leaf blade oblong-lanceolate, 15--30 X 5--10 cm, pinnatisect to pinnatipartite; segments 10--17 pairs, linear-lanceolate to oblong, incised-dentate. Stem leaves alternate to ± opposite, ± ovate or ± orbicular, abaxially subglabrous, adaxially sparsely bristly; segments 2--5 pairs. Flowers often in dense clusters, axillary; bracts leaflike. Pedicel short. Calyx tubular, ca. 1.1 cm, glabrous, cleft more deeply anteriorly; lobes 5, unequal, serrate. Corolla pink, ca. 2.5 cm; tube erect, longer than calyx; galea falcate; beak conical, 3--4 mm; lower lip to 1.7 cm, spreading. Filaments subglabrous. Fl. Jul--Aug, fr. Sep--Oct.

* Forest understories, shaded wet paths, thickets; 900--2200 m. Sichuan.


 

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