泸定百合 lu ding bai he

Lilium formosum Franchet; L. leucanthum Baker var. sargentiae (E. H. Wilson) Stapf; L. omeiense Z. Y. Zhu.

Bulb subglobose or broadly ovoid, 5--6 cm in diam.; scales lanceolate, 3.5--4 × 1.5--1.7 cm. Stem 45--160 cm, papillose. Leaves scattered, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 5.5--12 × 1--3 cm; axil with green bulblets (on distal leaves). Flowers solitary or 2--4 in a subumbel, funnelform. Tepals white, pale green toward base; outer ones oblanceolate, 14--17 × 2--2.8 cm; inner ones narrowly obovate-spatulate, wide; nectaries yellowish green, not papillose. Filaments 11--13 cm, densely pubescent proximally; anthers 1.4--2 cm, with brownish yellow pollen. Ovary purple, 3.5--4.5 cm × 3--5 mm. Style 10--11 cm. Capsule oblong, 6--7 × ca. 3.5 cm. Fl. Jul--Aug, fr. Oct. 2 n = 24*.

* Thicket margins, grassy slopes; 500--2000 m. Sichuan, ?Yunnan.