Lappula sinaica (Lappula sinaica)
Description
An erect usually sparsely branched annual up to 40 cm tall.Stem and branches covered with appressed to subappressed hairs.Basal leaves spathulate to ± oblanceolate,petiolate,including petiole 12-40 x 4-12 mm,covered on both surfaces with sub-appressed hairs.Upper leaves sessile.Pedicels very short to obsolete,3-8 mm and ± recurved in fruit.Calyx lobes c.1.5 mm long,hairy.Corolla blue or deeply so,with a white or yellow eye;tube 2.5-3 mm long.Nutlets c.2 mm ovoid,minutely verrucate-tuberculate;margin ± indistinct,sometimes with few glochidiate appendages.Style slender,exceeding nutlets.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Boraginales
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Family: Boraginaceae
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Genus: Lappula
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