花叶鹿蹄草 hua ye lu ti cao

Herbs to 20 cm tall. Leaves approximate to remote; petiole 3–4 cm; leaf blade deep green with pale veins adaxially, ovate or ovate-elliptic, 3–4 × 1.5–3 cm, leathery, base rounded, abruptly decurrent, margin with remote, minute teeth, apex acute, mucronulate. Scape ca. 10 cm; scales basal; raceme 1–4-flowered, 2–4 cm. Pedicel ca. 4 mm; bract linear, 8–10 mm. Flowers semipendent, 1.5–1.8 cm in diam. Sepals narrowly oblong, 5–6 × ca. 2.5 mm, apex obtuse. Petals white, obovate-orbicular, 7–7.5 × ca. 6 mm, apex rounded. Filaments complanate, yellow, 3–3.5 × 1–1.2 mm, tubules present. Style exserted, 8–10 mm, upper part curved, dilated at apex, without ring of lobes. Capsules 7–8 mm in diam. Fl. and fr. Jan.

Middle elevations. Taiwan.