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Cynoglossum microglochin nervosum

(Cynoglossum microglochin nervosum)

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Description

Perennial herbs up to 12 cm tall.Stem simple or branched,hairy,sometime densely so.Basal leaves petiolate;petioles up to 20 cm long;lamina ovate to oblong or oblanceo-late,6-20 x 15-10 cm,acute to ± obtuse,abruptly to gradually narrowed towards base or base truncate,densely or sparsely covered with hairs on both surfaces,hairs appressed or sub-appressed,often with prominent tuberculate base,Middle cauline leaves elliptic to broad lanceolate,petioles up to 5 cm long,npper-most leaves sessile to subsessile,hairs on leaves 0.5-1 mm long.Inflorescenc terminal or axillary,lax or dense,simple or bifurcate,up to 16 cm in fruit.Pedicel short,up to 3 mm in fruit and reflexed.Calyx 4/5th partite into oblong-ovate or elliptic ovate lobes,3-4.5 mm long,up to 6 mm and spreading in fruit.Corolla blue to purplish-blue;lobes ovate,3-4 mm long.Throat scales emarginate,c.l mm long,puberulous.Nutlets ovate,4-5 mm long;margin appendiculate,appendage glochidiate,confluent at the base;dorsal middle area often with a prominent kell with few erect glochidiate appendages.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum:
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order:Boraginales
Family:Boraginaceae
Genus:Cynoglossum
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