kingdom Plantae - plants »  divisio Magnoliophyta - flowering plants »  class Rosopsida - eudicots » order Malpighiales »  family Violaceae »  tribus Violeae > genus Viola > Viola sect. Plagiostigma Godr.  > Viola subsect. Adnatae W. Becker 

Viola duclouxii W. Becker

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Common Name: 紫点堇菜 zi dian jin cai 

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Description: Herbs perennial, acaulescent, with stolons. Rhizome short, 2-4 cm, stout, 2-3 mm in diam., densely noded, often with brown remains of stipules. Stolon to 20 cm, internodes longer, producing rootlets at nodes. Leaves basal; stipules brown, lanceolate, 8-10 mm, margin long or sparsely fimbriate; petiole 1.5-12 cm, glabrous; leaf blade abaxially gray-green, adaxially deep green, broadly ovate or suborbicular, 1.5-4 × 1.3-3.5 cm, dotlike brown glandular, abaxially glabrous, adaxially sparsely puberulous and scabrous, base deeply cordate, margin densely and shallowly rounded-serrate, apex obtuse; leaves in stolons smaller. Flowers white; pedicels 2-2.5 cm, glabrous, 2-bracteolate at middle; bracteoles subopposite, linear, margin entire. Sepals linear-lanceolate, ca. 3 × 1.2 mm, puberulous or nearly glabrous when mature, basal auricles ca. 1 mm, apex acute. Upper petals spatulate, ca. 7 × 4 mm, lateral ones spatulate, ca. 8 × 3 mm, glabrous, anterior one oblong, ca. 9 × 3 mm; spur ca. 1 mm, ca. 5 mm in diam. Capsules ovoid, 5-6 mm. Seeds globose, ca. 1.2 mm in diam. Fl. Mar-Apr, fr. Aug-Sep. 

Distributional Range:  Native Asia-Temperate CHINA: China [Yunnan]

Habitat:  Forests; 1600-2700 m. 

References:

1. Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959-. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.