江苏石蒜Lycoris x houdyshelii

  • Scientific Name: Lycoris x houdyshelii Traub
  • Ref: Herbertia. 13: 45. 1957.
  • Chinese Common Name:江苏石蒜 jiang su shi suan
  • Family: Amaryllidaceae
  • Genus: Lycoris
  • Distribution: Shady and moist slopes. Jiangsu, Zhejiang.
  • Type: U.S.A., Tennessee, Nashville (cult.), S. Caldwell 549 (holotype: TRA); Type material was imported from a Chinese nurseryman in Shanghai, China, in 1948.
 Bulbs subglobose, ca. 3 cm in diam. Leaves appearing in autumn, dark green, ligulate, ca. 30 × 1.2 cm, midvein pale, apex obtuse. Flowering stem ca. 30 cm. Umbel 4--7-flowered; involucres 2, oblanceolate, ca. 2 × 0.8 cm. Perianth white; tube ca. 0.8 cm; lobes strongly recurved, abaxially with green midvein, oblanceolate, ca. 4 × 0.8 cm, margin strongly undulate. Stamens conspicuously exserted, 5--6 cm; filament white. Style pink at apex. Fl. Sep. 2 n = 30*. (Flora of China)

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