Hedyotis yazhouensis F.W.Xing & R.J.Wang

Species

Angiosperms > Gentianales > Rubiaceae > Hedyotis

Characteristics

Herbs or subshrubs, perennial, erect, to 10 cm tall; stems weakly 4-angled. Leaves sessile or subsessile, crowded at tops of stems; blade drying papery, obovate or ovate-elliptic, 8-20 × 4-12 cm, base obtuse, apex obtuse to broadly obtuse; secondary veins 5-8 pairs; stipules obtrapezoid to spatulate, 2-6 mm, lacerate with lobes ca. 1 mm. Inflorescence terminal, capitate, hemispherical, 3-5 cm in diam., several flowered, sessile to subsessile; bracts linear-lanceolate, ca. 8 mm, acute. Flowers sessile. Calyx densely puberulent; hypanthium portion ellipsoid to obovoid, 3-4 mm; limb divided essentially to base; lobes linear, ca. 35 × 1 mm. Corolla blue-purple, slenderly funnelform, outside sparsely puberulent; tube ca. 30 mm; lobes ovate, ca. 1 mm. Stigmas included. Fruit indehiscent, ellipsoid to obovoid, ca. 3 mm, densely pilosulous; seeds 8-12, black, papillose. Fl. and fr. Oct.
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Distribution

Hedyotis yazhouensis world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:20012174-1
WFO ID wfo-0000336209
COL ID 3K2NS
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Synonyms

Hedyotis yazhouensis