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21. Nomocharis Franchet, J. Bot. (Morot). 3: 113. 1889.
豹子花属 bao zi hua shu
Liang Songyun (梁松筠 Liang Song-jun); Minoru N. Tamura
Herbs perennial, bulbiferous. Bulb of many imbricate, fleshy scales, white, without a tunic. Stem erect. Cauline leaves alternate or whorled, sessile, linear-lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate. Inflorescence a terminal, 1- to several-flowered raceme; bracts 1--3. Tepals 6, free, usually with dark spots or blotches, usually papillose at apex; inner ones with nectary processes on both sides (rarely on 1 or neither side) of a short, median channel at base adaxially. Stamens 6, inserted at base of tepals; filaments often swollen, fleshy and cylindric proximally, sometimes subulate; anthers versatile. Ovary cylindric, 3-loculed; ovules many per locule. Style clavate, widened apically; stigma capitate. Fruit a capsule. Seeds narrowly winged all round.
Seven species: China, India, Myanmar; six species (two endemic) in China.
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Leaves alternate; filaments nearly subulate, tapering from flat, widened base to filiform apex; inner tepals entire at margin. |
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Leaves whorled, at least distal ones; filaments swollen, cylindric, and fleshy proximally, abruptly narrowed to a filiform portion distally; inner tepals entire or erose to lacerate at margin. |
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Style 6.5--12 mm, longer than ovary |
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1 Nomocharis aperta |
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Style 2.5--4 mm, shorter than ovary |
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2 Nomocharis saluenensis |
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Inner tepals neither spotted nor blotched with deep color, margin entire |
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3 Nomocharis basilissa |
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Inner tepals spotted or blotched with deep color, margin erose to lacerate. |
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Inner tepals ovate to elliptic, more than 1.5 × as long as broad; anthers 3--3.5 × ca. 1 mm |
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6 Nomocharis meleagrina |
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Inner tepals ovate to orbicular, scarcely or slighty longer than broad; anthers 4--6 × 1.5--2 mm. |
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Leaves elliptic to lanceolate-elliptic, 10--30 mm wide |
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4 Nomocharis pardanthina |
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Leaves linear to narrowly lanceolate, 5--8 mm wide |
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5 Nomocharis farreri |
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