Aletris alpestris Diels

Species

Angiosperms > Dioscoreales > Nartheciaceae > Aletris

Characteristics

Leaves numerous, densely tufted, linear, 1.5--8 cm × 2--4 mm. Scape very slender, wiry, often somewhat flexuous, 7--20 cm. Raceme 1--4 cm, laxly 4--10-flowered; rachis puberulent. Flowers distinctly pedicellate; pedicel 2--4 mm, puberulent; bract and bracteole borne at or near apex of pedicel; bract lanceolate, 1.5--4 mm, shorter than flower, glabrous, apex acute. Perianth white or pinkish white, 3.5--4.5 mm, glabrous but often densely papillose; tube cupular or campanulate; lobes recurved, lanceolate, 1.5--2 × 0.5--1 mm, 0.6--1 × tube length, apex of valves obtuse to acute. Capsule ovoid-globose, ca. 3 × 2.5 mm, apex abruptly narrowed; style ca. 0.3 mm; stigma not or only slightly thickened. Fl. Apr--Jul, fr. Aug--Sep.
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Uses medicinal
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Distribution

Aletris alpestris world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:429519-1
WFO ID wfo-0000755293
COL ID BPGY
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Synonyms

Aletris alpestris Aletris dielsii