雾社蜘蛛抱蛋 wu she zhi zhu bao dan

Rhizome terete, ca. 6 mm thick, covered with scales. Leaves solitary; petiole 20--50 cm; leaf blade lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 30--40 × 3--5 cm, leathery, base cuneate, apex acute to acuminate. Scape 1--2 cm; bracts triangular-ovate. Perianth pink, broadly campanulate, ca. 1 cm, 8-lobed apically; lobes deltoid-lanceolate, adaxially distinctly 2-keeled, margin often folded. Stamens 8, subsessile; anthers ovate, ca. 2 mm. Ovary cylindric, 5--6 mm; stigma broadly peltate, mushroom-shaped, large. Berry globose, 1--2 cm in diam. Fl. Apr. 2 n = 36*.

* 800--1900 m. C and N Taiwan.

No material of this species has been seen by the present authors.