Lappula anocarpa C. J. Wang

Herbs annual. Roots single, conical, straight, stout. Stems much branched above, 35-48 cm tall, somewhat spreading or appressed hispid; branches ascending. Basal leaves few, withered in fruit; leaf blade spatulate, to 7 cm × 5-7 mm, base attenuate, apex obtuse; stem leaves sessile, lanceolate, 3-5 cm × 4-6 mm, spreading or appressed hirsute, adaxially with fewer hairs, base attenuate, apex acute. Inflorescences terminal on branches, elongated to 20 cm in fruit; bracts linear-lanceolate, much longer than fruit. Flowers widely spaced. Pedicel 2.5-3.5 mm in fruit. Calyx lobes spreading, linear, 3-3.5 mm, to 5-6 mm in fruit, hirsute. Corolla light blue, ca. 4 mm; tube slightly shorter than calyx; throat appendages trapeziform, ca. 0.8 mm; limb 2.5-3 mm wide; lobes erect-spreading, oblong. Style surpassing nutlets by 0.5 mm, not surpassing prickles. Fruit broadly ovoid, homomorphic along lower part of inflorescences; nutlets narrowly ovoid, densely tuberculate, disc with 2 rows of glochids along margin; inner glochids 1.5-2 mm, base somewhat widened but free; outer glochids ca. 0.5 mm, usually at base of vertical surface. Fruit of upper part of inflorescences heteromorphic, 2 nutlets with a broad wing; inner glochids of disc margin 1-2 mm, bases strongly widened and confluent into a wing 0.6-1 mm; outer glochids ca. 0.5 mm, on base of nutlets, other 2 nutlets wingless. Fl. and fr. Jul-Sep.

* Fields, waste areas, slopes on loess plateau. C and NE Gansu.

Lappula anocarpa là loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Mồ hôi. Loài này được Ching J. Wang mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1981.

畸形果鹤虱（学名：Lappula anocarpa）是紫草科鹤虱属的植物，是中国的特有植物。分布在中国大陆的甘肃等地，见于田间、荒地及山坡，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。