七筋姑 Clintonia udensis

  • Scientific Name: Clintonia udensis Trautv. & C.A.Mey.
  • Ref: A.T.von Middendorff, Reise Sibir. 1(2; 3):92. 1856
  • English Common Name: Uta broadlily
  • Chinese Common Name: 七筋姑 qījīn∙gū
  • Japanese Common Name: ツバメオモト [燕万年青] tsubameomoto
  • Family: Liliaceae
  • Genus: Clintonia
  • Distribution: Sparse forests, alpine forests; 1600–4000 m. Gansu, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Jilin, Liaoning, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Sichuan, Xizang, Yunnan [Bhutan, India, Japan, Korea, Myanmar, Russia (Far East, Siberia), Sikkim].
  • Photo: 07/14/2008, Mt. Changbai, Jilin
Rhizome stiff, ca. 5 mm in thick, covered with fibrous sheaths. Leaves 3--5, ± petiolate, obovate, elliptic-obovate, or oblanceolate, 8--25 × 3--16 cm, margin pubescent when young. Scape 10--20 cm, usually to 60 cm in fruit, leafless, densely white pubescent. Raceme 3--12-flowered; bracts caducous; pedicels densely pubescent, 1--7 cm in fruit. Tepals white or sometimes bluish, oblong, 7--12 × 3--4 mm, puberulent abaxially. Stamens 4--6(--8) mm. Pistil 6--8 mm; style 3--5 mm. Berry blackish blue, globose or ellipsoid, 7--12 × 7--10 mm, many seeded. Fl. May--Jun, fr. Jul--Oct. 2 n = 14, 28. (Flora of China)

07/22/2010, Mt. Changbai, Jilin

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