《中国植物志》|| 白花丹科 PLUMBAGINACEAE ||白花丹族 Trib. Plumbagineae Meissn. ||鸡娃草属 Plumbagella Spach

2．鸡娃草属*——Plumbagella Spach
Spach, Hist. Nat. Veg. Phan. 10: 333. 1841. in nota.
一年生草本。叶互生，基部半抱茎，两侧耳部沿茎上细棱下延。花序生于茎枝顶端，初时近头状，渐延伸成短穗状；小穗含2-3花，具1枚叶状的草质苞片，每花具2枚膜质小苞，花小，具短梗；萼硬草质，管状圆锥形，略显有5棱角，先端具5裂片，裂片边缘着生具柄的腺，萼筒无腺而于结果时自棱上形成1-2个鸡冠状突起；花冠具狭钟状的筒部与5个近直立而露于萼外的裂片；雄蕊下位，或与花冠筒之基部略接合，花药长卵形；子房卵形，先端渐细；花柱1枚；柱头5枚，伸长，指状，内侧具钉状腺质突起（受粉面）。蒴果尖长卵形；种子长卵形。
单种属。分布于我国青藏高原至天山北坡和阿尔泰山区。蒙古和苏联也有。
本属染色体基数为6。

《Flora of China》|| Plumbaginaceae || ||鸡娃草属 Plumbagella

2. Plumbagella Spach, Hist. Nat. Veg. 10: 333. 1841.

鸡娃草属 ji wa cao shu

Herbs, annual. Stems erect, branched. Leaves sessile, base clasping and decurrent. Inflorescences subcapitate when young, becoming shortly spicate; spikelets 2- or 3-flowered; bracts leaflike, herbaceous; bractlets 2, membranous. Flowers minute, pedicellate. Calyx siphonate-conical; tube not glandular, slightly 5-angular, angles alternating with lobes and becoming crested by fruiting stage; lobes with stalked glands along margin. Corolla narrowly campanulate, tube slightly longer than calyx, lobes erect. Stamens hypogynous or slightly adnate to corolla base; filaments linear, basally not expanded; anthers narrowly ovate. Ovary ovoid, apex acuminate. Styles connate, terminally 5-branched; stigma on inner surface of branches, covered with stalked capitate glands.

Monospecific: China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Russia.