Microcaryum pygmaeum I.M.Johnst.

Species

Angiosperms > Boraginales > Boraginaceae > Microcaryum

Characteristics

Plants 1.5-5 cm tall. Stems erect, branched from base or not. Leaves sessile, narrowly obovate to linear-oblong, 0.6-1.5 cm × 2-6 mm, sparsely villous, with hairs near leaf apices, hairs discoid at base, base attenuate, apex obtuse to acute. Cymes terminal. Pedicel unequal, 2.5-6 mm, pubescent. Calyx ca. 2 mm; lobes narrowly elliptic, densely white villous inside, sparsely pubescent outside, apex acute. Corolla blue or pink, glabrous; tube ca. as long as calyx; throat light yellow; appendages lunate, slightly thickened, papillate, apex emarginate; limb ca. 3 mm wide; lobes suborbicular, ca. 1 mm. Anthers ca. 0.3 mm, apex mucronulate. Style ca. 1 mm. Nutlets ovate, slightly incurved, ca. 1.1 mm, abaxially slightly keeled.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.02 - 0.05
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Hardiness (USDA) 7-11

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Distribution

Microcaryum pygmaeum world distribution map, present in China, India, and Nepal

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:118759-1
WFO ID wfo-0001216218
COL ID 73FMW
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Synonyms

Eritrichium riae Anchusa kunthii Eritrichium pygmaeum Microcaryum pygmaeum