垂花百合 Lilium cernuum


  • Scientific Name: Lilium cernuum Kom.
  • Ref: Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada 20:461. 1901
  • Synonyms: Lilium graminifolium H.Lév. & Vaniot, Lilium palibinianum Y.Yabe
  • English Common Name: nodding lily
  • Chinese Common Name: 垂花百合 chuíhuā bǎihé
  • Japanese Common Name: マツバユリ [松葉百合] matsubayuri
  • Family: Liliaceae
  • Genus: Lilium
  • Distribution: Thickets, grassy slopes. Jilin, Liaoning [Korea, Russia (Primorskiy Kray)].
  • Photo: 07/14/2008, Mt. Changbai, Jilin
Bulb oblong or ovoid, (2.5--)4 cm in diam.; scales white, lanceolate or ovate. Stem to 65 cm, smooth. Leaves scattered, sessile, narrowly linear, (4--)8--12(--18) cm × (1--)2--4(--5) mm, margin slightly recurved, papillose. Flowers solitary or 2--6 in a raceme, nodding, fragrant. Tepals pale purple-red, with deep purple spots toward base, lanceolate to oblong, 3.5--4.5 cm × 8--10 mm, margin revolute; nectaries densely papillose on both surfaces. Filaments ca. 2 cm; anthers dark purple, ca. 1.4 cm. Ovary cylindric, 8--10 × ca. 2 mm. Style 1.5--1.7 cm. Capsule globose to obovoid, 1.2--2 × 1--1.5 cm. Fl. Jul. 2 n = 24*, 25. (Flora of China)

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