| Gentiana auriculata Pall. | |||
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| Family | Gentianaceae — APG family: Gentianaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Gentianella auriculata (Pall.) Gillett. | ||
| Description | Glabrous; stem simple in dwarfed specimens, usually branched above; rosette leaves oblong-ovate, blunt, soon withering; stem leaves ovate-lanceolate; flowers mostly tetramerous; 2 of the calyx lobes broadly ovate, blunt, with broad, somewhat cordate base and earlike blade, the others narrower; corolla dark violet, with pale tube twice as long as calyx; plates in sinuses ovate, laciniate. | ||
| Ecology | Subalpine meadows. Described from Penzhina, Kamchatka, Japan, and America. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.