Viola sikkimensis W. Becker

Herbs perennial, acaulescent. Rhizome short, 2-2.5 cm, stout, 4-7 mm in diam., densely noded, often with brown remains of stipules. Stolon to more than 10 cm; internodes longer, producing rootlets at nodes. Leaves basal; stipules brown, lanceolate, 1-1.3 cm, margin long fimbriate-dentate; petiole 3-10 cm, glabrous; leaf blade abaxially gray-green, adaxially deep green and nitid, broadly ovate or suborbicular, 1.5-5 × 1.5-4 cm, both surfaces glabrous or sparsely puberulous, base deeply cordate, margin densely and shallowly crenate, apex obtuse. Flowers white or purplish; pedicels exceeding leaves, glabrous, 2-bracteolate above middle; bracteoles subopposite, linear, margin remotely denticulate. Sepals narrowly lanceolate, 5-6 mm, glabrous, 3-veined, basal auricles rounded or remotely dentate at apex. Petals oblong-obovate, 1-1.2 cm × 4-4.5 mm, lateral ones glabrous, anterior one purple veined, shorter, 1-1.2 cm (spur included); spur ca. 2 mm, ca. 2.5 mm in diam., slightly enlarged; spur of 2 anterior stamens angular, slightly longer than anthers, apex obtuse. Ovary conic, glabrous; styles clavate, gradually thickened upward; stigmas flat at apices, broadly margined on lateral sides and abaxially, shortly beaked at apex, beak straight. Capsule ovoid-orbicular. Fl. Apr-May, fr. May-Jun.

Himalaya (Nepal, Sikkim), Assam, Burma, W. China.

SE Xizang, Yunnan [?Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal].

1600-2400 m

Mountain forests, forest margins, streamsides, riversides; 1500-2500 m.

Viola hookeri Thomson & W. Becker (1916), not Franchet (1886).

Viola sikkimensis là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hoa tím. Loài này được W. Becker miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1916.

锡金堇菜（学名：Viola sikkimensis）为堇菜科堇菜属的植物。分布在锡金、缅甸、尼泊尔以及中国大陆的云南、西藏等地，生长于海拔1,500米至3,000米的地区，多生于山地林下、溪谷、林缘或河旁，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。