Anisodus carniolicoides (C. Y. Wu & C. Chen) D' Arcy & Z. Y. Zhan

The rhizomes are bitter and poisonous and are used medicinally for treating injury, bleeding wounds, and pain of rheumatism and arthritis.

Rhizomes yellow. Stems sometimes pale purple, erect. Petiole 1.2-3(-5) cm; leaf blade elliptic to ovate, 6-18(-21) × 3-7.5(-12) cm, papery, glabrous, base cuneate or slightly decurrent, margin entire, sinuate, or irregularly dentate, apex acute or acuminate. Pedicel stout, 1.5-4 cm. Calyx campanulate, 2-3 × 1.5-2.5 cm, short lobed, becoming 1- or 2-parted and irregular during corolla egress. Corolla pale yellow-green, ca. 4.5 cm; lobes purple striate abaxially, indistinct, short mucronate. Anthers 6-7 mm. Disc pale yellow. Fruiting pedicel ca. 4 cm. Fruiting calyx ca. 3 cm, leathery. Fruit subglobose, ca. 1.5 cm in diam. Fl. May-Jul, fr. Sep-Oct.

SE Qinghai, Sichuan, NW Yunnan

* Grassy slopes, thickets at forest edges, rock crevices; 3000-4500 m.

Scopolia carniolicoides C. Y. Wu & C. Chen, Acta. Phytotax. Sin. 15(2): 59. 1977; S. carniolicoides var. dentata C. Y. Wu & C. Chen.