Lappula sinaica (A.Dc.) Asch. & Schweinf.

Species

Angiosperms > Boraginales > Boraginaceae > Lappula

Characteristics

Herbs annual. Stems erect or ascending, frequently branched from base, 15-40 cm tall, gray strigose or hispid, hairs white, tuberclelike at base. Basal leaves petiolate, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 1.5-5 × 0.5-1.5 cm, sparsely short hispid, base attenuate, margin entire, apex obtuse; stem leaves sessile, shorter, narrower. Inflorescences elongated in fruit, usually 1-or 2-bracted. Fruiting pedicel erect, stout, 2-3 mm. Calyx lobes erect, oblong to linear, 1.5-2.5 mm, short hispid, hairs discoid at base, not enlarged in fruit, shorter than nutlets, subtending base of fruit. Corolla light blue, campanulate, ca. 3 mm; limb 2.5-3 mm wide. Gynobase surpassing nutlets by ca. 1 mm. Nutlets 2.5-3.5 mm; disc narrowly oblong, densely granulose, margin prominent becoming a narrow rib, with a single sparse row of extremely short glochids or sometimes finely tuberculate; lateral surfaces tuberculate.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.28 - 0.4
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Distribution

Lappula sinaica world distribution map, present in China and Pakistan

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:117625-1
WFO ID wfo-0000361497
COL ID 7W367
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Synonyms

Cynoglossospermum sinaicum Cynoglossospermum divaricatum Echinospermum divaricatum Echinospermum kotschyi Echinospermum sinaicum Lappula divaricata Lappula sinaica