Gentiana nubigena - Blue-Funnel Gentian

Blue-Funnel Gentian is a green herb up to 30 cm high, with stem very small, up to 5 cm long or absent. Flowers are bell-shaped, 3-5 cm long, blue, showy and large, with purple or dark blue streaks, sometimes spotted, lobes very small, inprominent, entire, blunt, plicae very small, triangular, slightly toothed. Stamens are 5, filament adnate at middle of the flower tube. Sepal-cup is 1-2 cm long, tube half the length of sepals, sepals unequal, distichous, 2 bigger lobes 4-6 x 1.5-2.5 mm, lanceshaped, entire. Flowers are borne in 1-4-flowered cymes. Basal leaves are 2.0-33 x 0.4-0.8 cm, oblong-linear, entire, cartilage-like, blunt, sheathing and membranous at base, unnerved, stem leaves 23-4 x 0.2-0.5 cm, oblong-linear, entire, cartilage-like, slightly reflexed, blunt-pointed, less sheathing than basal leaves. Fruit is protruding and stalked, 2.25-3.5 x 0.5-0.75 cm, lanceshaped. Blue-Funnel Gentian is found in the Himalayas to China and N. Myanmar, at altitudes of 3000-5300 m.