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Hemerocallis multiflora Stout

Species

Angiosperms > Asparagales > Asphodelaceae > Hemerocallis

Characteristics

Plants deciduous in winter. Roots slightly fleshy, with a swollen, tuberous part near tip. Leaves only slightly equitant basally, linear, 50--70 × 0.7--1 cm, soft. Scape several branched, 80--90 cm, rather slender, solid, many flowered (sometimes more than 100-flowered); bracts lanceolate, 2.5--2.8 cm × 5--7 mm. Pedicel 5--7 mm. Flowers small, slightly fragrant, opening during day, purplish black apically in bud. Perianth orange or golden yellow; tube usually greenish, 2.5--2.8 cm; segments spreading, 5.5--5.8 × 1--1.4 cm, inner ones slightly wider than outer. Filaments ca. 4 cm; anthers blackish or yellow, ca. 6 mm. Capsule ovoid-ellipsoid, ca. 1.5 × 0.8 cm. Fl. Jul--Oct. 2 n = 22*.
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A herb. It loses its leaves during the winter. It grows 1.2 m high. The roots are slightly fleshy. They have a swollen tuber near the tip. The leaves are narrow and 50-70 cm long by 0.7-1 cm wide. There can be many flowers. They are small and have a scent. The flowers open during the day. They are orange or yellow. They are purplish black in bud. The fruit is a capsule. It is oval and 1.5 cm long by 0.8 cm wide.
Life form perennial
Growth form -
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 0.5
Mature height (meter) 1.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

It is a temperate plant. It grows in hill forests and in openings in the forest on hilltops between 700-1000 m altitude in Henan in China.
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Hill forests and openings in forests on hilltops; at elevations from 700-1,000 metres.
Light 4-9
Soil humidity 3-7
Soil texture 2-5
Soil acidity 3-7
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 4-5

Usage

Uses medicinal
Edible flowers leaves roots shoots tubers
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by divisions or seedlings. Seeds needs stratification.
Mode divisions seedlings
Germination duration (days) 21 - 49
Germination temperacture (C°) 15 - 21
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment stratification
Minimum temperature (C°) -35
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Distribution

Hemerocallis multiflora world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:536355-1
WFO ID wfo-0000655410
COL ID 3KKXP
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Hemerocallis multiflora
WorldFloraDB 2024