大瓣紫花山莓草 Sibbaldia purpurea var. macropetala

  • Scientific Name: Sibbaldia purpurea var. macropetala (Murav.) T.T.Yu & C.L.Li
  • Ref: Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 37:340. 1985
  • Synonym: Sibbaldia macropetala Murav.
  • English Common Name: large-petal purple sibbaldia
  • Chinese Common Name: 大瓣紫花山莓草 dàbàn zǐhuā shānméi∙cǎo
  • Family: Rosaceae
  • Genus: Sibbaldia
  • Distribution: Forest margins, alpine meadows, rock crevices near snow line; 3600–4700 m. Shaanxi, Sichuan, Xizang, Yunnan [Bhutan, Sikkim].
  • Photo: 07/21/2011, Mt. Taibai, Qinling
Herbs perennial, woody based. Rhizome much branched. Flowering stems ascending, 4–10 cm tall, appressed pilose. Radical leaves 1.5–4 cm including petiole; stipules dark brown, membranous, abaxially sparsely sericeous-villous or subglabrous; petiole appressed pilose; leaf blade palmately 5-foliolate; leaflets sessile or subsessile, obovate or obovate-oblong, 5–10 × 3–6 mm, subequal, both surfaces appressed white villous or sericeous-villous, base cuneate or broadly so, margin usually 2- or 3-serrate, apex obtuse. Flowers many in corymbs, rarely solitary, bisexual, longer than subtending leaf. Disk well developed, purple-red. Stamens 5, alternating with petals. Style lateral. Achenes ovoid, purple-brown, glabrous. Fl. and fr. Jun–Aug. (Flora of China)

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