南川鹿药 nan chuan lu yao

Smilacina nanchuanensis (H. Li & J. L. Huang) S. Yun Liang.

Plants 12--22 cm tall. Rhizome creeping, terete, ca. 3 mm thick, slender. Stem yellow-brown hirsute distally. Leaves 3 or 4; petiole 3--4 mm; leaf blade ovate or oblong-ovate, 4.5--7 × 3.2--4.3 cm, abaxially strigose, base rounded or somewhat cordate, margin ciliate. Inflorescence a panicle, 2--2.5 cm; rachis densely hirsute. Flowers solitary; pedicel 3--4 mm, hirsute. Perianth white; segments free, spreading, ca. 2.3 × 0.7--1 mm. Filaments ca. 1.7 mm, slightly flat. Ovary white, ca. 1 mm. Style subequaling ovary; stigma slightly 3-lobed. Fl. May--Jun.

* Forests, hillsides along ravines; 1700--2100 m. SE Sichuan (Nanchuan Xian).