Family | GESNERIACEAE |
Genus species | Lysionotus involucratus Franch. |
Bibliography | Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. (Paris) 5: 249 (1899) |
Native Range | s. China |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | shady rocks |
Altitude | 1200-1300m |
Description | leaves shortly petiolate, oblanceolate to narrowly oblong, 1-3cm, glabrous, serrate, acute to subtruncate, cymes 1-2-flowered, peduncles 2-6cm glabrous, corolla 20-26mm |
Size | 15-20cm |
Color | purple |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | shady, humous, rock crevices alpine house, humous, gravelly soil, shade |
Propagation | seed in spring, germ. 1 month, 13-18°C division in spring and late summer; leaf cuttings in summer |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 36 China (CHC China South-Central, CHS China Southeast) |