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 savatieri Makino

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Common Name:  辽东堇菜; 拉丁学名 , Liaodong Viola 

Synon.: Viola incisa var. acuminata Franch. & Sav.

Description: Herbs perennial, without ground stems, about 15 cm tall. Rhizomes are short, about 7-10 mm long and about 5 mm thick, with 2-4 thick and long gray-brown branches. Basal leaves 2-4; leaf blade triangular-lanceolate, 4-5.5 cm long, 1-1.5 cm wide, up to 9 cm long after flowering, about 4 cm wide, apex acuminate, base slightly heart-shaped or nearly truncated, with irregular obtuse indentation at the upper edge and irregularly lobed coarse serrate at the lower portion, glabrous on both sides or puberulent along the veins above and below, lateral veins 4-5; petiole thin, 7-10 long centimeter, upper part with extremely narrow wings, glabrous or pubescent; lower part of stipules connate with petiole, partly diamond-shaped or linear-lanceolate, apex acuminate, sparsely dentate or entire margin . Flowers violet-colored, with long stalks; pedicels as long as or slightly beyond leaves, pubescent or glabrous, with 2 bracteoles below middle; bracteoles opposite or near opposite, linear, 7-12 mm long, sparsely glandular hairs at base margin; sepals lanceolate, 6-8 mm long, apex apex, marginal membranous, 3-veined, glabrous, base appendages rectangular or nearly semicircular, about ca. 3 mm, terminally truncated or irregularly lobed; upper petals oblong-ovate, 1.3 cm long, 7 mm wide, apex rounded, base tapering, lateral petals oblong, 1.1 cm long, wide Approx. 5 mm, sparsely short-haired at base, 1.8 cm long below petals; thick and long, nearly as long as sepals, 7 mm long, 4 mm thick, obtuse at end; anthers 2 mm The top appendix of the sepal is 2 mm long, and the distance between the lower stamens is slender, about 5.5 mm long and about 0.5 mm thick; the ovary is nearly oblong, about 2 mm long, and the style is stick-shaped, about 1.5 mm long and the base is slightly thin And it bends forward, and the sides of the top are slightly thickened to a very narrow edge. The front has a short short beak, and the beak end has a thick stigma hole. Flowering in May

Distributional Range:  Native Asia-Temperate CHINA: China [Liaoning Sheng]

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References:

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