伞柱蜘蛛抱蛋 san zhu zhi zhu bao dan

Rhizome subterete, 3--5 mm thick. Leaves solitary, spaced; petiole 5--17 cm, rather slender; leaf blade generally yellowish white spotted, ovate-elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, 8.5--14 × 2.8--6.5 cm. Scape 1--4 cm; bracts 4--6, white, speckled with purple. Flower solitary. Perianth campanulate, 6-lobed apically; tube purple-black adaxially, purple abaxially, 1.2--1.6 × 1.1--1.3 cm; lobes spreading or reflexed, white adaxially, purple abaxially, broadly oblong, 6--10 × 5--8 mm. Stamens 6, inserted at base of perianth tube; filaments ca. 1 mm; anthers subreniform, 2--2.5 mm. Pistil 1--1.2 cm; style articulate; stigma hemispheric, mushroom-shaped, very large, 5--6 mm × 1--1.2 cm, exceeding anthers. Fl. Nov. 2 n = 36*.

* Forests in limestone ravines; 300--400 m. W Guangxi (Long’an Xian, Tian’e Xian).