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Chinese Plant Names | Family List | Liliaceae | Tricyrtis

5. Tricyrtis ovatifolia S. S. Ying, Quart. J. Chinese Forest. 6(1): 169. 1972.

卵叶油点草 luan ye you dian cao

Description from Flora of China

Rhizome creeping, thickened, ca. 5 mm thick. Stem erect or ascending, 25--50 cm, glabrous. Leaves ovate, 9--12 × 6.5--8.5 cm, base rounded and slightly amplexicaul, apex acute, caudate. Cymes terminal, 10--15 cm; pedicels 1.5--2.5 cm, pubescent. Tepals white, with red spots, oblanceolate, 2--2.5 cm × 5--8 mm; outer ones basally shortly spurred. Filaments filiform, slightly flattened, 1.5--2.5 cm. Ovary glabrous. Capsule 3--3.5 cm × 5--8 mm. Seeds many, brown, spindlelike, 1--1.5 mm.

No specimens have been seen by the present authors.

* Forests, roadsides; 800--1000 m. S Taiwan (Pingdong Xian).


 

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