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金江火把花Colquhounia compta W. W. Smith

金江火把花Colquhounia compta W. W. Smith

别名:金沙江火把花;

科名:唇形科 Labiatae

属名:火把花属 Colquhounia

《中国植物志》第66卷033页
  3.金江火把花 金江炮仗花(植物分类学报8卷1期)
  Colquhounia compta W. W. Smith in Notes Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 11: 96. 1916; in ibid. 17: 245. 1929-30; Kudo in Mem. Fac. Sci. Agr. Taihoku Univ. 2: 181. 1929; C. Y. Wu in Act. Phytotax. Sin. 8(1) : 42. 1959.
形态特征:灌木,高1—2米,直立,多分枝。幼枝近圆柱形,初时密被由单毛及星毛混合组成的灰色短绒毛,老熟时近于无毛,此时皮层纵裂脱落。叶卵圆形或长卵圆形,通常长4—5厘米,宽2.5—3厘米,但在幼枝上部及短枝上者变小很多,先端近锐尖,基部截形;圆形至心形,边缘具小圆齿,坚纸质,上面绿色,具皱纹,被由单毛及星状毛混生的绒毛—,下面密被灰白色绒毛,侧脉4—6对,上面凹陷;下面隆起:叶柄长1.5—2厘米,有时短枝上的叶柄短很多,被绒毛。聚伞花序腋生,少花,具梗,常常在具小叶的短枝上组成簇状或头状花序;苞片线形,被短绒毛。花萼管状钟形,长7毫米,外被星状短绒毛,内面除萼齿被短柔毛外余部无毛,脉不明显,齿5,长三角形,先端短渐尖。花冠暗灰红色,长达2.5厘米,外面在上部被微柔毛,内面在冠筒有鳞秕状毛,冠简长1.6厘米,喉部略增大,下部渐狭,冠檐二唇形,上唇椭圆形,先端圆形,全缘,下唇3裂,裂片近相等,中裂片先端微缺。雄蕊4,不伸出,前对较长,花丝丝状,被微柔毛,插生于花冠喉部,花药卵圆形,2室,室极叉开,贯通。花柱丝状,先端不相等2浅裂。花盘平顶,边缘波状。子房无毛,略具翅。花期9月。
产地分布:产云南西北部;生于金沙江及澜沧江河谷开旷地干旱灌丛中,海拔1800—2100米。模式标本采自云南维西贡山间。
本种提示:原变种及变种的分布规律与马鞭草科的石梓属Gmelina.豆腐柴属Premna及本科的铃子香属Chelonopsis的某些种颇多相似,其分布区的形成历史可能与金沙江及澜沧江的河流袭夺历史有关.
参考文献:ColquhouniacomptaW.W.SmithinNotesBot.Gard.Edinburgh11:96.1916;inibid.17:245.1929—30;KudoinMem.Fac.Sci.Agr.TaihokuUniv.2:181.1929;C.Y.WuinAct.Phytotax.Sin.8(1):42.1959.

《Flora of China》 Vol. 17 (1994)
Colquhounia compta  W. W. Smith
金江火把花   jin jiang huo ba hua
Shrubs erect, 1-2 m tall, much branched. Branches densely gray minutely tomentose, with simple and stellate hairs when young, later subglabrous, with longitudinally exfoliating bark. Petiole 1.5-2 cm; leaf blade ovate, 4-5 × 2.5-3 cm, papery, adaxially bullate, tomentose, abaxially densely tomentose, base truncate, margin crenulate, apex subacute. Cymes few flowered, pedunculate, in fascicled or capitate inflorescences on short branches; bracteoles minutely tomentose. Calyx ca. 7 mm, stellate tomentose outside; teeth narrowly triangular to triangular-subulate, apex short acuminate. Corolla dark gray-red to dark red, puberulent; tube scaly inside, ca. 1.6 cm, attenuate toward base; upper lip elliptic, apex entire to emarginate; lobes of lower lip subequal, middle lobe emarginate. Ovary slightly winged. Fl. Sep.
* Dry thickets in open valleys; 1800-2100 m. Sichuan, Yunnan.

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