罗甸蜘蛛抱蛋 luo dian zhi zhu bao dan

Rhizome terete, 2--2.5 cm thick, without scales. Leaves solitary; petiole 30--60 cm; leaf blade lanceolate, 80--110 × 10--13 cm. Scape 1--1.5 cm; bracts 1 or 2, purple. Flower solitary. Perianth red-pink, campanulate, deeply 6-lobed apically; tube 1--1.5 × 2--2.5 cm, glabrous; lobes recurved, linear-lanceolate, ca. 4.5 × 0.5 cm, basally expanded inward forming toothlike or spurlike appendages. Stamens 6, inserted at middle of perianth tube, subsessile; anthers suboblong, ca. 2.5 mm. Pistil 5--9 mm; ovary 3--5-ribbed; stigma purple, orbicular, large, 1--1.5 cm in diam. concave adaxially, slightly 8-lobed at margin. Berry red, globose, ca. 2.5 cm in diam., glabrous. Fl. Apr, fr. Jun. 2 n = 38*.

* Streamsides in evergreen forests in limestone areas; ca. 500 m. NW Guangxi (Tian’e Xian), S Guizhou (Luodian Xian).