Aletris scopulorum Dunn

Species

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Characteristics

Rhizome cormlike, subglobose, 3--7 mm in diam. Leaves 1--5, laxly tufted, linear, 3--15 cm × 2--4.5 mm. Scape 10--35 cm, slender, often wiry. Raceme 2.5--12.5 cm, laxly 4--17-flowered, rachis pubescent. Flowers shortly pedicellate; pedicel 0.5--3.5 mm, pubescent; bract and bracteole borne on proximal 1/2 of pedicel; bract linear-lanceolate, 2--5.5 mm, shorter than or equaling flower, ± glabrous, apex acute. Perianth white, 3--5 mm, sparsely pubescent or glabrescent; tube campanulate; lobes erect or slightly recurved, narrowly oblong-lanceolate to linear, 1.5--2.5 × 0.3--0.7 mm, ca. 1 × tube length or slightly longer, apex obtuse to rounded. Capsule subglobose, 3--3.5 × 2.5--3 mm, apex of valves abruptly narrowed; style ca. 0.5 mm or indistinct; stigma not or only slightly thickened. Fl. Mar--Apr, fr. Apr.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Usage

Uses medicinal
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Distribution

Aletris scopulorum world distribution map, present in China and Japan

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:527505-1
WFO ID wfo-0000755357
COL ID BPJP
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Synonyms

Aletris makiyataroi Aletris scopulorum