小花扭柄花 Streptopus parviflorus

  • Scientific Name: Streptopus parviflorus Franch.
  • Ref: Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat., sér. 2, 10:89. 1887, publ. 1888
  • Synonym: Streptopus mairei H.Lév.
  • English Common Name: small flower twistedstalk
  • Chinese Common Name: 小花扭柄花 xiǎohuā niǔbǐng∙huā
  • Family: Liliaceae
  • Genus: Streptopus
  • Distribution: Forests, thickets, alpine grasslands; 2000–3500 m. SW Sichuan, NW Yunnan.
  • Photo: Mt. Emei, Sichuan
Rhizome short, thickened. Stem usually branched distally, 20--50 cm, glabrous. Leaves lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 4--8 × 1.5--4 cm, thinly papery, base cordate, margin entire, apex acuminate. Peduncle 2.5--4 cm, glabrous, neither jointed nor geniculate, 1- or 2-flowered. Flowers nodding. Tepals white, lanceolate, 6.5--8 × 1--2 mm. Stamens 3--3.5 mm; filaments 1.8--2.2 mm; anthers ca. 1 mm. Style ca. 2.5 mm, slightly longer than ovary; stigma 3-lobed. Berry 5--8 mm in diam., many seeded. Seeds oblong, curved. Fl. Jun, fr. Aug--Sep. (Flora of China)

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