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Tricyrtis (en)

Genus

Angiosperms > Liliales > Liliaceae

Characteristics

Herbs perennial, with short or sometimes long and creeping rhizomes. Stems usually erect or ascending, sometimes branched distally. Leaves cauline, alternate, subsessile, usually ± amplexicaul. Inflorescence a thyrse or thyrsoid, rarely a raceme. Flowers bisexual, solitary, showy. Perianth campanulate or trumpet-shaped. Tepals 6, free, white or yellow with purplish spots, usually recurved or reflexed distally, usually caducous; outer ones saccate or shortly spurred. Stamens 6, inserted at base of tepals; filaments slightly flattened, proximally connivent to form a short tube; anthers dorsifixed, versatile, extrorse. Ovary 3-loculed; ovules many per locule. Style columnar; stigmatic lobes 3, spreading, apically cleft. Fruit a capsule, broadly cylindric, 3-angled, septicidal. Seeds many, ovate to orbicular, flattened, small.
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Erect puberulous or glabrescent herbs. Rhizome short, creeping. Aerial stem annual, simple or branched. Leaves cauline, alternate, flat, with several veins and a strong midrib, sessile, entire, lanceolate to ovate, with a sheathing base. Inflorescence terminal, racemose, simple or branched, or flowers in the axil of vegetative leaves. Pedicels solitary, not articulated. Perianth segments free or very shortly united, equal or subequal but the outer three saccate at the base, erect to spreading. Filaments flattened, more or less connivent, free of the perianth; anthers dorsifixed, versatile, oblong, extrorse. Ovary superior, sessile, oblong, 3-celled, 3-angled; ovules axile, numerous; style columnar; with 3 spreading or recurved bifid branches. Capsule septicidal. Seeds oblong or ovoid.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support -
Foliage retention
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 0.5 - 1.0
Mature height (meter) 0.5 - 1.0
Root system rhizome
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Light 1-6
Soil humidity -
Soil texture -
Soil acidity 2-6
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 8-11

Usage

Uses -
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by divisions or seedlings.
Mode divisions seedlings
Germination duration (days) 30 - 90
Germination temperacture (C°) 18 - 21
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

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Distribution

Tricyrtis world distribution map, present in China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea (Republic of), Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Korea (Democratic People's Republic of), Taiwan, Province of China, and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:331300-2
WFO ID wfo-4000039103
COL ID 8W4CQ
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Tricyrtis

Lower taxons

Tricyrtis suzukii Tricyrtis setouchiensis Tricyrtis puberula Tricyrtis perfoliata Tricyrtis affinis Tricyrtis nana Tricyrtis imeldae Tricyrtis latifolia Tricyrtis lasiocarpa Tricyrtis hirta Tricyrtis macropoda Tricyrtis macranthopsis Tricyrtis formosana Tricyrtis flava Tricyrtis dilatata Tricyrtis ishiiana Tricyrtis xianjuensis Tricyrtis maculata Tricyrtis macrantha Tricyrtis ohsumiensis Tricyrtis chinensis
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