Ophiorrhiza rufopunctata H.S.Lo

Species

Angiosperms > Gentianales > Rubiaceae > Ophiorrhiza

Characteristics

Herbs, weak at base, ascending above, to 15 cm tall; stems brownish hispidulous or-strigose. Leaves in somewhat unequal pairs; petiole 0.3-1.5 cm, pilosulous or hirsutulous; blade drying papery, oblong-ovate, ovate, or broadly ovate, 3-8(-10) × 2-3.5 cm, adaxially glabrescent and usually with scattered reddened gland dots, abaxially with red gland dots and glabrous or hispidulous to strigose on veins, base obtuse to subrounded or subcordate, often oblique, margins undulate, apex obtuse, subrounded, or acute; secondary veins 4 or 5 pairs; stipules persistent at least on upper nodes, subtriangular to ovate, 2-3 mm, obtuse and glandular at apex. Inflorescence 1-flowered or usually cymose and 2-5-flowered, densely brown hispidulous; peduncle ca. 1 cm; bracteoles linear-subulate, ca. 3 mm, usually hirtellous and/or with reddish gland dots. Flowers distylous, on short pedicels. Calyx hispidulous and/or with red gland dots; hypanthium turbinate to ellipsoid, ca. 3 mm, 5-ribbed; lobes linear, ca. 3 mm, each sinus with 1 gland. Corolla pale purple, funnelform; tube 18-22 mm, white villous or pilosulous above middle and densely pilosulous at middle inside; lobes ovate, 4-5 mm, dorsally ridged and with very small horn. Capsules 5-6 × ca. 11 mm, hispidulous. Fl. Nov.
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Distribution

Ophiorrhiza rufopunctata world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:939353-1
WFO ID wfo-0000257235
COL ID 49ZJ6
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Synonyms

Ophiorrhiza rufopunctata