Onosma liui Kamelin & T. N. Popova

Herbs ca. 60 cm tall. Stems several, cespitose, slender, branched from base, sparsely hispid, strigose. Leaf blade oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate, 1-3 cm × 3-5 mm, abaxially hispid and densely short strigose, adaxially appressed hispid, base cuneate or rounded, apex obtuse. Inflorescences terminal, branched, 1-3 cm at anthesis. Pedicel slender, 2-3 mm, slightly elongated in fruit, hispid, short strigose. Calyx 2.5-3.5 mm; lobes narrowly lanceolate. Corolla tubular-campanulate, 6-8 mm, base 1-1.5 mm wide, gradually expanded upward; throat 4.5-5.5 mm wide, densely short strigose outside, scabrous inside, strigose; nectary ca. 0.5 mm, densely pubescent; lobes broadly triangular, ca. 1.5 × 2 mm, apex recurved. Filaments subulate, base extremely expanded, inserted in villous area 1.5-2 mm above base of corolla tube; anthers laterally united, 6-7 mm, almost completely exserted. Style 0.9-1.1 cm, glabrous. Nutlets dirty gray-brown, ca. 2.5 mm, densely fine papillate, tuberculate. Fl. and fr. Jul.

Sichuan.

* Slopes, roadsides; 2300-3400 m.

Onosma strigosum Y. L. Liu (1980), not Steven (1851).