taxonID	type	description	language	source
E707F9B094695390B48316A3DDFF1463.taxon	description	Figs 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9	en	Li, Hui-min, Zhou, Wei, Zhu, Jun-wen, Song, Chun-feng (2024): Taxonomic studies on the genus Sanicula (Apiaceae) from China (III): The morphology and distribution of S. caerulescens (Apiaceae), with S. oviformis reduced to a new synonym. PhytoKeys 249: 205-222, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.249.136854
E707F9B094695390B48316A3DDFF1463.taxon	description	Description. Perennial. Rhizome, rarely stoloniferous, oblique rootstock, bearing fibrous roots. Stems 2 – 7, slender and erect, several branches above the middle, 5 – 40 cm tall. Basal leaves 2 – 14 (– 23), long petiolate; petioles 2 – 17 cm long; blade glabrous adaxially and abaxially, usually purplish-red on the back, 1 – 7 cm long, (2.2 –) 4.5 – 14 cm wide, cordate-ovate or ovate, sub-ternate to trifoliate, the median segment obovate to ovate-lanceolate, distinctly shallowly trilobed, petiolate, the lateral segments obliquely ovate, shallowly bilobed, the margins irregularly crenulate-serrate with spinose teeth. Cauline leaves significantly reduced, sheathing, subsessile or sessile, with pinnately lobed blades, resembling involucrate bract, ca. 2.0 mm long. Inflorescence pseudo-racemose, sometimes the lower umbels in fascicles, sessile or short-pedunculate; involucrate bract lanceolate to ovate, acuminate, ca. 1.6 mm long; terminal umbels pedunculate, 3 - to 12 - radiate, 2.5 – 7.0 mm long; involucellate bracteoles 4 – 6 (– 8), linear to lanceolate, ca. 1 mm long. Umbellules 5 – 7 - flowered, staminate flowers 4 – 6 per umbellule, pedicels 2.1 – 4.0 mm long, petals mainly blue to purple. Fertile flowers 1 per umbellule, sessile; calyx teeth linear to lanceolate, acute, ca. 0.8 mm long; styles ca. 2.0 mm long, recurved. Mericarps globose to ellipsoid, 2.0 – 3.0 mm long, 1.0 – 1.5 mm broad, covered with short and straight spinous bristles usually fused at the base forming a thin tier; mericarp flattened dorsally, orbiculate in cross-section. Vittae 5.	en	Li, Hui-min, Zhou, Wei, Zhu, Jun-wen, Song, Chun-feng (2024): Taxonomic studies on the genus Sanicula (Apiaceae) from China (III): The morphology and distribution of S. caerulescens (Apiaceae), with S. oviformis reduced to a new synonym. PhytoKeys 249: 205-222, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.249.136854
E707F9B094695390B48316A3DDFF1463.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Sanicula caerulescens is widely distributed in China (Chongqing, northern Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, western Hunan, Sichuan and Yunnan) and Vietnam (Hà Giang) (Fig. 10).	en	Li, Hui-min, Zhou, Wei, Zhu, Jun-wen, Song, Chun-feng (2024): Taxonomic studies on the genus Sanicula (Apiaceae) from China (III): The morphology and distribution of S. caerulescens (Apiaceae), with S. oviformis reduced to a new synonym. PhytoKeys 249: 205-222, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.249.136854
E707F9B094695390B48316A3DDFF1463.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The epithet caerulescens is derived from the Latin term referring to the blue hue of the petals in the flowers.	en	Li, Hui-min, Zhou, Wei, Zhu, Jun-wen, Song, Chun-feng (2024): Taxonomic studies on the genus Sanicula (Apiaceae) from China (III): The morphology and distribution of S. caerulescens (Apiaceae), with S. oviformis reduced to a new synonym. PhytoKeys 249: 205-222, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.249.136854
