Maharanga lycopsioides (C. E. C. Fischer) I. M. Johnst.

Herbs perennial, ca. 30 cm tall, with stout straight roots. Stems several, cespitose, erect or ascending, densely hispid, short strigose. Basal leaves petiolate, oblanceolate, 10-15 × 1-1.5 cm, densely hispid and short strigose, base attenuate, apex acuminate; stem leaves widely spaced, lanceolate or broadly lanceolate, 4-9 × 1-2 cm, sparsely white hispid, base attenuate. Inflorescences terminal, in panicle, 2-4 cm wide at anthesis, 9-11 cm in fruit; bracts ovate-lanceolate, 7-10 × 2-3 mm. Pedicel 3-6 mm, elongated in fruit, densely hispid and strigose. Calyx 6-7 mm, parted to 1/3 from base; lobes narrowly triangular or ovate-lanceolate, 4-5 mm, hispid and short strigose outside, densely antrorse villous inside. Corolla blue or pale blue-purple, tubular, 1.4-1.5 cm, ca. 5 mm wide at middle; throat constricted, 3-4 mm wide, densely pubescent outside, glabrous inside except for pilose glands; nectary ca. 1 mm, glabrous or sparsely pubescent; lobes triangular, ca. 1 mm. Filaments ca. 5 mm, inserted ca. 5 mm above base of corolla tube; base of anthers united, ca. 5 mm, included, sterile apex ca. 1 mm. Style ca. 1.5 cm, glabrous. Nutlets ovoid, ca. 2 mm, not shiny. Fl. and fr. Apr-May.

Yunnan (Jinghong Xian) [India, Thailand].

Moist thickets, open hillsides; 1600-3000 m.

Onosma lycopsioides C. E. C. Fischer, Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1940: 39. 1940.