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 senzanensis Hayata

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Common Name:  尖山堇菜 jian shan jin cai 

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Description: Herbs perennial. Rhizome long creeping to ascending, slender, acaulescent. Stipules lanceolate, 5-10 × 1-2 mm, glabrous, membranous, ca. 2/3 adnate to petiole, margin slightly laciniate-serrate or entire, apex acute; petiole 2-11 cm, glabrous; leaf blade triangular-cordate, 1.2-2.8 × 2-3.8 cm, herbaceous to papery, glabrous or puberulous on both sides, base reniform-cordate, with basal lobes somewhat converging, margin shallowly serrate, wingless, apex acute to obtuse. Flowers nearly white, with dark violet veins, 1-1.5 cm in diam.; pedicels 4-10 cm, exceeding leaves, slender, glabrous or sparsely puberulous. Sepals ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, 3.5-6 × 0.8-1.5 mm, glabrous, margin entire, apex acute; appendages ca. 1 mm, rounded. Petals obovate to oblong, lateral ones glabrous, anterior one equaling others, apex rounded; spurs cylindric, 2-3 mm, slender, rounded. Styles 2-2.7 mm, base slightly geniculate, clavate distally, apex slightly lobed on both sides; stigmas beaked. Capsules oblong or ellipsoid, 6-9 mm, glabrous. Seeds ovoid, ca. 2 mm. 2n = 24*. 

Distributional Range:  Native Asia-Temperate EASTERN ASIA: Taiwan

Habitat: High mountains; 3300-3600 m 

References:

1. Editorial Committee of the Flora of Taiwan. 1993-. Flora of Taiwan, ed. 2.

2. Li, H. L. et al., eds. 1975-1979. Flora of Taiwan.

3. Wang, J. C. & T. C. Huang. 1990. Notes on the flora of Taiwan (9) the Viola L. (Violaceae). Taiwania 35:51.