Mazus delavayi - Bell-Sepal Mazus

Bell-Sepal Mazus is a small annual herb, upto 28 cm tall, without runners, deep-rooted, hairy. Sepal-cup is 4 mm, bell-shaped, 5-lobed, tube usually shorter than sepals. Sepals have pointed tip and are glandular hairy, almost fully covering the flower. Flowers are 8 mm long, off-white, yellow markings on lower lip, two-lipped, upper lip short, triangular, lower lip spreading, 3-lobed, tube hairy on outside. Flowers are borne in elongated racemes, somewhat one-sides, hairy, few to many flowered. Flowers are stalked, bracteate. Flower-stalks are shorter than sepal-cup, up to 2 mm long, densely hairy with glandular hairs. Bracts are linear-triangular, green, sparsely hairy. Stems are 1 to many, branched, rising up or sub-erect, hairy with glandular and eglandular hairs. Basal leaves are in rosette form, spoon-shaped to inverted-lanceshaped, hairy, margin toothed, decurrent at base, short-stalked, blade upto 5 cm long. Stem leaves are smaller than basal leaves, stalkless, blade nearly round, hairy on both surfaces, tip blunt or rounded, margins rounded toothed. Capsules are 4 mm long, ovoid to spherical, hairless with pointed tip. Bell-Sepal Mazus is found from N Pakistan, through the Himalayas to China and N Myanmar, at altitudes of 1200-3800 m. Flowering: March-June.