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Clintonia udensis Trautv. & C.A.Mey.

Species

Angiosperms > Liliales > Liliaceae > Clintonia

Characteristics

Rhizome stiff, ca. 5 mm in thick, covered with fibrous sheaths. Leaves 3--5, ± petiolate, obovate, elliptic-obovate, or oblanceolate, 8--25 × 3--16 cm, margin pubescent when young. Scape 10--20 cm, usually to 60 cm in fruit, leafless, densely white pubescent. Raceme 3--12-flowered; bracts caducous; pedicels densely pubescent, 1--7 cm in fruit. Tepals white or sometimes bluish, oblong, 7--12 × 3--4 mm, puberulent abaxially. Stamens 4--6(--8) mm. Pistil 6--8 mm; style 3--5 mm. Berry blackish blue, globose or ellipsoid, 7--12 × 7--10 mm, many seeded. Fl. May--Jun, fr. Jul--Oct. 2 n = 14, 28.
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A herb which keeps growing from year to year. It is about 1 m high. It has a creeping rootstock about 5 mm thick. It is covered with fibrous sheaths. There are 3-5 leaves. The leaves do not have leaf stalks. The leaf blades are oblong to sword shaped and cup shaped. They are 8-25 cm long by 3-16 cm wide. The edges are hairy when young. There are 3-12 flowers in a group. The flowers are white or sometimes bluish. They occur in racemes at the ends of branches. The fruit is a blackish-blue berry. It is round or oval and 7-12 mm long by 7-10 mm wide. It has many seeds.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support -
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.3
Root system creeping-root fibrous-root rhizome
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color -
Blooming months
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Fruit color -
Fruiting months
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AprMayJun
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Birch forests and alpine shrubberies, 3000-4000 metres from Uttar Pradesh to China. Sparse forests, alpine forests at elevations of 1600-4000 metres.
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It is a temperate plant. In Nepal it grows at 3200-4000 m altitude. It grows in sparse and alpine forests between 1600-4000 m altitude in China.
Light 1-6
Soil humidity 4-6
Soil texture 3-6
Soil acidity 1-6
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 3-7

Usage

The tender leaves and shoots are cooked as a vegetable.
Uses medicinal
Edible leaves shoots
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Plants are grown from seed or tubers.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) 30 - 90
Germination temperacture (C°) 12 - 15
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
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Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

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Distribution

Clintonia udensis world distribution map, present in China, Japan, Myanmar, Nepal, and Korea (Democratic People's Republic of)

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:533176-1
WFO ID wfo-0000763751
COL ID W795
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Clintonia udensis

Lower taxons

Clintonia udensis var. alpina Clintonia udensis var. udensis
WorldFloraDB 2024