山丹 Lilium pumilum

  • Scientific Name: Lilium pumilum Redouté
  • Ref: Liliac. 7:t. 378. 1812
  • Synonyms: Lilium potaninii Vrishcz, Lilium sinensium Gandoger, Lilium tenuifolium Fischer ex Hooker.
  • English Common Name: coral lily, Siberian lily
  • Chinese Common Name: 山丹 shāndān, 细叶百合 xìyè bǎihé, 萨日朗花 sàrìlǎng∙huā
  • Japanese Common Name: イトハユリ [糸葉百合] itohayuri
  • Family: Liliaceae
  • Genus: Lilium
  • Distribution: Forest margins, grassy slopes; 400–2600 m. Gansu, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mongol, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi [Korea, Mongolia, Russia (C and E Siberia)].
  • Photo: 07/14/2009, Mt. Taibai, Qinling
Bulb ovoid or conical, 2--3 cm in diam.; scales white, oblong or narrowly ovate, 2--3 × 1--1.5 cm. Stem sometimes streaked with purple, 15--60 cm, papillose. Leaves scattered near middle of stem, linear, 3.5--9 × 1.5--3 cm, midvein prominent abaxially, margin papillose. Flowers solitary or several in a raceme, nodding. Tepals revolute, bright red, usually unspotted, occasionally with a few spots near base, 4--4.5 cm × 8--11 mm, not minutely papillose adaxially; nectaries papillose on both surfaces. Filaments 1.2--2.5 cm, glabrous; anthers yellow, with reddish pollen, ca. 1 cm. Ovary 8--10 mm. Style 1--2 cm. Capsule oblong, ca. 2 × 1.2--1.8 cm. Fl. Jul--Aug, fr. Sep--Oct. 2 n = 24*. (Flora of China)

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