Androsace elatior Pax & K.Hoffm.

Species

Angiosperms > Ericales > Primulaceae > Androsace

Characteristics

Herbs perennial. Rootstock with numerous fibrous roots. Leaves basal, forming a rosette, with withered remains of leaves at base; petiole (2--)3--5 mm, densely hirtellous; leaf blade reniform to suborbicular, 1.5--2.5 cm wide, abaxially sparsely strigillose, adaxially strigillose, base cordate, sinus penetrating 1/4--1/3 into leaf blade, palmately and deeply 5-lobed; lobes 3-lobulate; margin of segments entire to dentate. Scapes 1--4, arising from rosette, hirtellous, 2--3 X as tall as leaf rosettes; umbels 10--25-flowered; bracts linear to oblong, 2--2.5 mm, apex acuminate. Pedicel rigid, 1--1.5 cm, strigillose. Calyx puberulous, ca. 2.5 mm, parted to middle; lobes triangular to ovate-triangular. Corolla white or pink, ca. 4 mm in diam.; lobes obovate-oblong, margin nearly entire. Fl. Jul.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Root system fibrous-root
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Hardiness (USDA) 6-10

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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 elatior world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:700256-1
WFO ID wfo-0000534538
COL ID DVC8
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Synonyms

Androsace elatior