Lappula macrantha (Ledeb.) Gürke

Species

Angiosperms > Boraginales > Boraginaceae > Lappula

Characteristics

Herbs annual. Stems 20-40 cm, usually branched from base; branches ascending, sparsely spreading pubescent. Leaves light green, lanceolate-spatulate or oblong, wide and flat, 2-4 cm × 5-10 mm, abaxially densely spreading pubescent, apex obtuse. Infructescences branches 3-8 cm, not very loose; bracts small lanceolate. Pedicel 1-2 cm, pubescent. Calyx 1.5-2 mm, elongated in fruit; lobes lanceolate. Corolla sky blue; limb slightly funnelform, 5-8 mm wide; lobes ovate-rounded. Nutlets 4-5 mm; disc with keel of small anchorlike spines and tuberculate, margin with flat whitish yellow glochids 2-3 mm; glochids 4-6 on each side of disc. Style completely hidden. Fl. Apr-Jun, fr. May-Jul.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.2 - 0.4
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-10

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Distribution

Lappula macrantha world distribution map, present in China, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:117572-1
WFO ID wfo-0001215760
COL ID 3S9TD
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Synonyms

Oreogenia ferghanica Cynoglossospermum macranthum Echinospermum macranthum Lappula macrantha