云南洼瓣花 yun nan wa ban hua

Lloydia filiformis Franchet; L. mairei H. Léveillé; L. yanyuanensis S. Yun Liang.

Plants 5--20 cm tall. Bulb 5--12 × 3--4 mm; tunic brown. Basal leaves 1 or 2, filiform, usually shorter than stem, 0.5--1 mm wide; cauline leaves 2 or 3, narrowly linear, 0.4--2 cm × 0.5--0.8 mm. Inflorescence usually 1-flowered. Tepals white or yellowish, mottled with purple or red, glabrous, sometimes with 2 inconspicuous, nectariferous grooves near base adaxially; outer tepals oblong, 0.9--1.2 cm × 3--4 mm; inner ones obovate, 0.9--1.2 cm × 5--6 mm. Stamens 1/2--2/3 as long as tepals; filaments glabrous. Ovary ovoid to subellipsoid, 1.8--2.5 × 1--1.5 mm. Style slender, 6--10 mm; stigma shortly 3-lobed. Fl. Jun--Jul.

Forest margins, scrub, shady places on slopes, grasslands, rocky places along valleys; 2300--4100 m. W Sichuan, Yunnan [Sikkim].