Corispermum lepidocarpum Grubov

Plants 10-12 cm tall. Stem few branched from base; branches obliquely spreading, equaling or longer than stem, terete. Leaves linear, 2-2.5 cm × ca. 2 mm, 1-veined, base attenuate, apex acute, mucronate. Spikelike inflorescence terete or clavate, crowded; bracts lanceolate to ovate, 0.6-2 cm × 2-3 mm, narrower than utricle, 1-veined, base attenuate to rounded, margin membranous, apex acuminate, mucronate. Perianth segment 1, ovate or broadly so, 1-1.5 × ca. 1 mm, apex truncate or rounded, erose, Stamens 1-3; filament of middle one ca. 2 × as long as perianth, others usually not developed. Utricle with a few brown spots, sublustrous, ovate, 4.5-5.5 × 3-4.5 mm, covered with stellate hairs, base truncate or subcordate, apex acute, deeply and narrowly emarginate; wing ca. 1 mm wide, margin irregularly incised; beak ca. 1.5 mm, apex ca. 1/5 as long as beak, slightly curved. Fl. and fr. Jul-Aug.

* Sandy places near rivers. E Xizang (Gyaca, Mainling, Nyingchi).

Annual up to 20 cm, branched at the base, almost glabrous or glabrescent. Leaves lanceolate or linear, 2.0–4.0 × 0.2–0.4 cm, transforming into imbricate bracts. Inflorescence usually elongated. Bracts lanceolate or linear, often recurved, not completely covering the fruit laterally. Fruits 4.0–5.0 × 3.2–3.5 mm with stellate hairs, pericarp surface often with groups of dark-brown (visually almost black) tanniniferous cells; fruit apex deeply emarginate with two lateral crown-like outgrowths (Fig. 36B). Wing clearly visible (0.85–1.10 mm), irregularly toothed, narrowly triangular in cross-section. Pericarp detachments not detected. Sclereids in medium fruit part with 1–2 outer layers located perpendicular to the fruit axis and 1–3 inner layers (orientated parallel to the fruit axis).

See Fig. 37.

Corispermum lepidocarpum là loài thực vật có hoa thuộc họ Dền. Loài này được Grubov mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1961.

鳞果虫实（学名：Corispermum lepidocarpum）是苋科虫实属的植物，为中国的特有植物。分布于中国大陆的西藏等地，生长于海拔3,160米至3,200米的地区，多生长于江沿岸之沙滩上，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。