Gentiana sutchuenensis Franch. ex Hemsl.

Annuals 2.5-8 cm tall. Stems erect, branched throughout, usually with 2-5 crowded flowering branches, sparsely papillate. Petiole tube 1-1.5 mm, papillate; leaf blade glabrous, base narrowed to obtuse, margin thick cartilaginous and ciliolate, apex acuminate and aristate with a tip ca. 0.7 mm, midvein prominent. Basal leaves withered at anthesis; leaf blade elliptic to narrowly so, 1.5-4.5 cm × 5-9 mm. Stem leaf blades lanceolate, narrowly elliptic, or ovate, 0.5-2 cm × 2.5-6 mm, narrowed toward stem apex. Pedicel 2-10 mm, sparsely papillate. Calyx obconic, 5-7.5 mm; lobes spreading, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 2-2.5 mm, slightly unequal, base slightly narrowed, margin thick cartilaginous and densely ciliolate, apex acuminate and aristate with a tip ca. 0.7 mm, midvein prominent. Corolla blue to blue-purple, with pale yellow-green base, funnelform, 0.9-1.2 cm; lobes ovate, 2-3 mm, margin entire, apex obtuse; plicae ovate, 1-1.5 mm, margin entire or denticulate, apex obtuse. Stamens inserted at basal part of corolla tube, equal; filaments 2.5-3 mm; anthers ellipsoid, 0.8-1 mm. Style 2-2.5 mm; stigma lobes narrowly oblong. Capsules narrowly obovoid to obovoid, 3.5-5 mm; gynophore to 1.2 cm, stout. Seeds light brown, ellipsoid, 0.7-1 mm. Fl. and fr. Apr-Jul.

S Gansu, Guizhou, S Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan.

* Along streams, river banks, roadsides, grassland slopes, forests; 400-2500 m.

Gentiana decipiens Harry Smith; G. rigidifolia Harry Smith.

Gentiana sutchuenensis là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Long đởm. Loài này được Franch. ex Hemsl. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1890.

四川龙胆（学名：Gentiana sutchuenensis）为龙胆科龙胆属的植物，为中国的特有植物。分布在中国大陆的四川、云南等地，生长于海拔2,700米至3,350米的地区，多生于草坡及石灰岩岩隙，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。