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Published In: Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 9: 244, pl. 7. 1857. (Hooker's J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc.) Name publication detailView in BotanicusView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 5/10/2022)
Acceptance : Accepted
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Contributor Text: R.R. Mill
Contributor Institution: Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland
Flower/Fruit: Fl. Per.: May-August.
Type: Lectotype: Tibet occ., 11-14000 ft, T. Thomson (K). 
Distribution: Kashmir, Pakistan (Baltistan), India (Himachal Pradesh: Lahul), Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Xizang (mainly S. & S. E.), S. W. China (Yunnan, Sichuan and Gansu).

Growing in bogs and swamps, and by sandy stream-banks and irrigation channels, in the alpine Himalaya from 3200-4400 m.

Comment/Acknowledgements:

J. D. Hooker & Thomson, in their original account of the species, described the root as being annual but this seems very unlikely, given the high-alpine habitat and the fact that underground stolons are frequently present. Unfortunately, the life form is not mentioned in the field notes on any of the considerable number of specimens examined from throughout the range of the species.

 L. hirsuta Bonati in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 56: 467. 1909, described from “Tsékou”  (Cigu, Yunnan),  is  said to differ from  L. tibetica  by its larger, hairy leaves 40-50 mm long, membranous calyx with ciliate lobes, and the much longer corolla tube (up to 30 mm). No material matching this taxon has been seen, although some specimens of L. tibetica from Nepal and Tibet (including one of the T. Thomson syntypes) have large leaves up to 50 (-70) mm; an account (in Chinese) of L. hirsuta is given in Fl. R. P. Sin. 67(2): 115. 1979. Another variant with larger, hairy leaves was described as forma pubescens Pennell, Scroph. W. Himal. 35. 1943 (holotype: Ladakh, Indus valley, between Leh and Kaltse, 12-14.7.1956, H.A. & R. Schlagintweit, PH). Pennell added that plants transitional between forma pubescens and typical L. tibetica were collected from a single population at Leh by R. R. Stewart.

Map Location: B-9 Kashmir: Stok, 3352 m, 1976, Janet Maxwell 46 (E); Kashmir: Bod Kharbu, Treaty Road, Ladakh, 11,000 ft., 5.6.1941, F. Ludlow & G. Sherriff 8369 (E); C-9 Kashmir: Hanle, Rupshu, 14,300 ft., 13.7.1931, W. Koelz 2305a (E, K).

 

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An apparently perennial, usually glabrous and acaulescent herb. Rootstock slender, horizontal (but almost always appearing vertical when pressed), with thin fibrous roots. Stem usually absent, when present 3-7(-10) cm. Leaves usually all rosulate, shortly petiolate, lamina obovate to elliptic, 20-50(-70) x 8-25 mm, subacute, entire or obscurely serrate, upper surface glabrous or sparsely pubescent, lower surface usually glabrous, margin ± ciliate. Calyx 6-8 mm, lobes acute, ?-½ x tube.Corolla purple or violet-blue, paler near base of tube and with lower lip paler than upper; tube 10-12 mm; upper lip c. 3 mm, 2-lobed; lower lip c.5 mm, with white hairs near entrance to tube. Filaments white; anthers very pale yellow. Style and stigma white. Berry red at first, becoming brown or black when mature, 6-7 mm diam., with short apiculus. Seeds very numerous, brown. 

 
 
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