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新疆花葵Lavatera cashemiriana Cambess.

新疆花葵Lavatera cashemiriana Cambess.

科名:锦葵科 Malvaceae

属名:花葵属 Lavatera

《中国植物志》第49(2)卷010页
  3. 新疆花葵 图版2
  Lavatera cashemiriana Cambess. in Jacquem. Vovage. 1, Inde 4: 29, 1844; Masters in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 1: 319. 1874; Iljin in Fl. URSS 15: 78, t. 5, f. 2, 1949.
  多年生草本,高1米,被星状疏柔毛。叶基生的近圆形,顶生的常3-5裂,长4-8厘米,宽5-9厘米,裂片三角形,边缘具圆锯齿,基部心形,先端钝,上面被疏柔毛,下面被星状柔毛;叶柄长1-4厘米,被星状疏柔毛;托叶线形,长8毫米,被星状柔毛。花排列成近总状花序,顶生或簇生于叶腋间,花梗长4-8厘米,被星状疏柔毛;小苞片3枚,阔卵形,长1厘米,全缘,基部合生成杯形,密被星状柔毛;萼钟形,直径约1.5厘米,长约1.5厘米,5裂,裂片卵状披针形,先端渐尖,密被星状柔毛;花冠淡紫红色,直径约8厘米,花瓣倒卵形,长4厘米,宽2厘米,先端深2裂,基部楔形,密被星状长髯毛;雄蕊柱长约1.5厘米,疏被硬毛,花丝纤细,多数,花药黄色。分果爿20-25,肾形,平滑无毛。花期6-8月。
  产我国新疆西北部的清河、塔城等地,常见于海拔540-12200米的湿生草地或阳坡。分布于克什米尔(模式产地)和阿尔泰山。本种花型大而美丽,可供园林观赏用。

《Flora of China》 Vol. 12 (2007)
Lavatera cachemiriana  Cambessèdes
新疆花葵   xin jiang hua kui
Althaea cachemiriana (Cambessèdes) Kuntze ["kashmiriana"]; Lavatera cachemiriana var. haroonii Abedin.
Herbs perennial, to 1 m tall, stellate pilose. Stipules filiform, ca. 8 mm, stellate tomentose; petiole 1-4 cm, stellate pilose; leaf blades dimorphic, basal leaf blades nearly orbicular, apical blades usually 3-5-lobed, 4-8 × 5-9 cm, lobes triangular, abaxially stellate tomentose, adaxially stellate pilose, base cordate, margin crenate, apex obtuse. Flowers in terminal subracemes or in axillary fascicles. Pedicel 4-8 cm, stellate pilose. Epicalyx lobes 3, broadly ovate, connate basally into cup ca. 1
cm, stellate tomentose, entire. Calyx campanulate, ca. 1.5 × 1.5 cm, 5-lobed, lobes ovate-lanceolate, stellate tomentose, apex acuminate. Corolla reddish purple, ca. 8 cm in diam.; petals obovate, ca. 4 × 2 cm, basally densely stellate hairy, base acuminate, apex 2-divided. Staminal column ca. 1.5 cm, sparsely hirsute. Mericarps 20-25, reniform, glabrous. Fl. Jun-Aug.
Sunny slopes, wet meadows; 500-2200 m. NW Xinjiang [India, Kashmir, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan].
This species is grown frequently as an ornamental and garden plant. Most material belongs to Lavatera cachemiriana var. cachemiriana. Lavatera cachemiriana var. haroonii Abedin differs in having simple or 2- or 3-rayed hairs on the adaxial leaf surface, and it is endemic to Pakistan. Lavatera cachemiriana is closely related to L. thuringiaca Linnaeus and may only represent a minor variant of that species at the eastern edge of its range.

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