Stellaria patens D. Don

Herbs diffuse, with long, white filiform hairs. Stems yellow, 10--40 cm, slender, shiny, with long filiform hairs, basally glabrous. Leaves sessile, linear or linear-lanceolate, 1--2.5 cm × 2--5 mm, midvein conspicuously raised, both surfaces with long filiform hairs, base broadly cuneate, apex acute or acuminate. Flowers few to numerous, in dichotomous cymes; bracts ovate-lanceolate, 4--5 mm, with long filiform hairs, margin broadly membranous, apex acute. Pedicel 5--10 mm, with dense long filiform hairs. Sepals 5, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, 5--7 × 1--1.5 mm, outside with white filiform hairs, 3-veined, margin narrowly membranous, apex acute. Petals 5, shorter than or subequaling sepals, 2-cleft to base; lobes narrowly ovate. Stamens 10, subequaling petals. Ovary ovoid-orbicular; styles 3, linear, ca. 2 mm. Capsules yellow, narrowly ovoid, shorter than persistent sepals, 6-valved. Seeds brown, reniform to suborbicular, granulose. 2n = 26.

Xizang [Bhutan, India, Kashmir, Nepal, Sikkim].

Forests, forest margins; 2200--2800(--3600) m.

Stellaria fenzliana Klotzsch; S. longissima Wallich ex Edgeworth & J. D. Hooker; S. mollis Klotzsch.

Flowering in July.

Stellaria patens is close relative of Stellaria lanata, but differs from the latter in its plant long filiform hariy (vs. densely white woolly), petals nearly as long as sepals (vs. shorter than sepals), stamen 10 (vs. 8), capsules shorter than persistent sepals (vs. 2 times longer than persistent sepals).

Stellaria patens is occurring in Xizang of China, Bhutan, India, Kashmir, Nepal, Sikkim.

Herbs diffuse, with long, white filiform hairs. Stems yellow, 10-40 cm long, slender, shiny, with long filiform hairs, basally glabrous. Leaves sessile, linear or linear-lanceolate, 1.5-3 cm long, 1.5-5 mm wide, midvein conspicuously raised, both surfaces with long filiform hairs, base broadly cuneate, apex acute or acuminate. Flowers few to numerous, in dichotomous cymes; bracts ovate-lanceolate, with long filiform hairs, margin broadly membranous, apex acute. Pedicel 6-12 mm long, with dense long filiform hairs. Sepals 5, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, outside with white filiform hairs, 3-veined, margin narrowly membranous, apex acute. Petals 5, shorter than or subequaling sepals, 2-cleft to base; lobes narrowly ovate. Stamens 10, subequaling petals. Ovary ovoid-orbicular; styles 3, linear. Capsules yellow, narrowly ovoid, shorter than persistent sepals, 6-valved. Seeds brown, reniform to suborbicular, granulose.

Growing in forests, forests margins; 2000-2600 m.

Stellaria patens là loài thực vật có hoa thuộc họ Cẩm chướng. Loài này được D. Don miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1825.

白毛繁缕（学名：Stellaria patens）是石竹科繁缕属的植物。分布于锡金、克什米尔地区、印度、尼泊尔、不丹以及中国大陆的西藏等地，生长于海拔2,200米至2,820米的地区，常生于林间或林缘草地，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。