Lysimachia prolifera Klatt

Not common. Variable as to length of the pedicel and filament. The latter may equal the corolla and the pedicel may be shorter or equalling the bract. Found from 3000-3700 m.

Plant prostrate-ascending. Stem (4-) 7-17 cm, glabrous to glandulose, especially the young shoots, simple or branched from the base. Leaves alternate and opposite, elliptic or elliptic-ovate, subspathulate, 14-25 x 6-9 mm, subacute, cuneate, decurrent, glandular-punctate, margin crisp; petiole shorter or almost equalling the lamina, minutely and sparsely glandulose. Flowers in short terminal corymbs, rose-red. Bract linear-subulate, obtuse, 3.5-5.5 mm long; pedicel shorter or equalling the lamina, minutely and sparsely glandulose. Calyx 5 mm long, 2/3 rd cleft; lobes lanceolate, 4-4.5 mm long, apiculate, glandular streaked, margin crisp. Corolla 6-6.2 mm long; lobes oblong-lanceolate, c. 4.6 mm long, apex subentire to more or less toothed. Stamens included; filaments shorter or equalling the corolla, 3.2-6.2 mm long; anthers 1-1.2 mm long, obtuse, glandular, sometimes sub exserted. Ovary ovaloid to subglobose, c. 1.2 mm broad, glabrous; style shorter or equalling the corolla, 4-4.5 mm long, slender, persistent; stigma subcapitate. Capsule globose, c. 3.6 mm broad. Seeds c. 1 mm long, trigonal, broad margined.

Herbs perennial, 10--28 cm tall. Stems often many, ascending to erect, often prostrate at base, ± glandular puberulous. Leaves opposite; petiole narrowly winged by and ca. as long as decurrent leaf blade; leaf blade ovate to oblanceolate or spatulate, 7--12(--20) X 0.6--1.2(--1.6) cm, glabrous, sparsely dark glandular punctate and striate, base attenuate, apex rounded or apiculate. Pedicel 1--1.5 cm, glandular puberulent. Flowers 4 or 5, solitary in axils of upper leaves. Calyx lobes lanceolate, 4--5 mm, dark purple or black glandular striate outside, apex blunt. Corolla pink or white, narrowly campanulate; tube ca. 1.5 mm; lobes obovate-spatulate, 4.5--5.5 mm, with or without few reddish glandular stripes, apex rounded. Stamens slightly shorter than corolla lobes and adnate to lower part; anthers elliptic, dorsifixed, ca. 1 mm. Ovary ovoid; style ca. 4 mm. Capsule subglobose, 3--4 mm in diam. Fl. May-Jun. 2n = 24.

Himalaya (Garhwal to Bhutan), Darjeeling, Assam, S.E. Tibet, S.W. China (Yunnan).

Distribution: Temperate Himalaya: Hazara, Kashmir and eastward to Garhwal, Nepal, Sikkim, Assam.

W Sichuan, S Xizang, NW Yunnan [Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sikkim].

2400-3800 m

Fl.Per.: May-June.

Wet meadows, wet areas on mountain slopes; 2700--3200 m.

Lysimachia prolifera là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Anh thảo. Loài này được Klatt mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1866.

多育珍珠菜（学名：Lysimachia prolifera）是报春花科珍珠菜属的植物。分布在印度、锡金、缅甸、尼泊尔以及中国大陆的西藏、云南等地，生长于海拔2,700米至3,300米的地区，多生于山坡草地以及混交林下，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。