Swertia ciliata (G. Don) B. L. Burtt

Annuals 30-50 cm tall. Roots yellow, fibrous. Stems erect, subquadrangular, branched. Leaves sessile or short petiolate; leaf blade lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 0.8-4.5 × 0.3-2 cm, thin herbaceous, base obtuse, margin slightly revolute, apex acute, veins 3-5. Inflorescences panicles of cymes, many flowered, spreading. Flowers 5merous. Pedicel erect, to 2.5 cm, filiform. Calyx tube 1-1.5 mm; lobes reflexed at anthesis, lanceolate, 5-7 × 1.5-2 mm, slightly unequal, margin and midvein dark purple, apex acuminate. Corolla dirty purple, with 2 purple spots above each nectary, 1-1.2 cm in diam., tube 1-1.5 mm; lobes spreading at anthesis, ovate-lanceolate, 6-7 mm, apex acuminate. Nectaries 1 per corolla lobe, horseshoe-shaped, naked. Filaments dark purple, 4-5 mm, basally much enlarged and connate; anthers blue-purple, ellipsoid, 1-1.5 mm. Style 3-4 mm, slender; stigma lobes capitate. Capsules ovoid, 7-10 mm. Seeds pale yellow, subglobose, 0.3-0.5 mm in diam.; seed coat smooth to warty. Fl. and fr. Jul-Sep. 2n = 20.

Afghanistan, Himalaya (Kashmir to Sikkim).

SW Xizang [Afghanistan, India, Kashmir, Nepal, Sikkim].

2800-4000 m

Beside streams, hillsides; 3600-3700 m.

Ophelia ciliata D. Don ex G. Don, Gen. Hist. 4: 178. 1837; O. purpurascens Wallich ex D. Don.

Swertia ciliata là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Long đởm. Loài này được (D. Don ex G. Don) B.L. Burtt miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1965.

普兰獐牙菜（学名：Swertia ciliata）为龙胆科獐牙菜属下的一个种。