Androsace adenocephala Hand.-mazz.

Species

Angiosperms > Ericales > Primulaceae > Androsace

Characteristics

Herbs perennial. Leaf rosettes solitary or several in small tufts; rosettes of current year superimposed on old rosettes. Leaves trimorphic. Outer leaves triangular-lanceolate, 5--7 X ca. 2 mm, ± early deciduous, brown, with white margin proximally, apex acute. Medial leaves sessile, liguliform, 5--7 mm, white pubescent on distal 1/2, hairs ca. 1 mm, apex rounded. Petiole of inner leaves short; leaf blade obovate-lanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate, 1.5--3.5 cm, hirsute, base narrowed, apex obtuse. Scapes 3--4(--7) cm, spreading pubescent and stalked glandular; umbels subcapitate, 5-or 6-flowered; bracts linear-lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 4--5 mm, slightly protuberant at base, villous, minutely glandular. Pedicel 2--5(--8) mm. Calyx ca. 2.5 mm, parted to ca. middle; lobes ovate, with sparse long soft and glandular hairs, apex obtuse. Corolla pink, with a yellowish eye, 6--8 mm in diam.; lobes suborbicular, apex obscurely undulate. Fl. Jun.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 30 - 365
Germination temperacture (C°) 10 - 12
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Distribution

Androsace adenocephala world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:700157-1
WFO ID wfo-0000534366
COL ID DV9D
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Synonyms

Androsace adenocephala