贡山鹿药 gong shan lu yao

Smilacina gongshanensis S. Yun Liang in F. T. Wang et al., Acta Bot. Yunnan. 5: 261. 1983.

Plants 5--20 cm tall. Rhizome 1.5--2 mm thick, slender. Stem white pubescent distally. Leaves 2, shortly petiolate; leaf blade ovate or oblong-ovate, 2--5 × 1.5--3 cm, both surfaces laxly pubescent, base rounded or subcordate. Inflorescence a raceme, 1--3 cm, 1--4-flowered, glabrous. Flowers solitary; pedicel 5--10 mm. Perianth brownish; segments slightly connate at base, outer ones oblong, ca. 3 × 1.5--2 mm, inner ones obovate, 4--4.5 × 3--3.5 mm. Filaments 0.5--0.8 mm, flat, basally connate; anthers 0.5--0.8 mm. Style short; stigma 3-parted. Fl. Jul.

* Alpine meadows, thickets; 3400--3600 m. NW Yunnan (Gongshan Drung-Nu Zu Zizhixian).