Bulb 2.5-3cm; scales 10-20, lanceolate, brown or yellowish. Flower stem (2-)9-50cm. Leaves linear, blunt, 3-10.5 x 0.15-0.65cm, lower sometimes wider than upper. Flower single, drooping, campanulate, deep reddish-purple to lilac, inside usually paler, with varying degrees of darker flecking. Tepals narrowly elliptic, contracted at extreme tip, apex not reflexed, with tufts of branched hairs at base on both sides of basal nectar furrow, 1.7-3.1 x 0.7-1.4cm, inner usually wider and broader at apex. Filaments greenish, 0.6-1.4cm; anthers dull orange to dark purple or brown, 2-4.5mm. Ovary cylindric, 0.6-1cm, striped; style 1.5-8mm. Capsule pale with longitudinal purplish-brown stripes, oblong-ellipsoid, truncate, segments 1.5-2.5 x 0.9-1.3cm. Seeds pale brown, pear-shaped, narrowly (c.0.6mm) winged.
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🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
Family Description
Perennials, bulbous herbs; bulbs composed of 1-many fleshey scales, enclosed by a membranous tunics or not. Stems erect, herbaceous; leaves basal or arranged (usually spirally) along stem, glabrous, linear to ovate, bases sheathing, apex sometimes developing into tendril (cirrhose). Infl. terminal, racemose, umbel-like, or reduced to a single flower. Flowers actinomorphic or weakly zygomorphic; tepals 6, usually all similar, free, with basal nectaries. Stamens 6; filaments free. Ovary superior, of 3 locules each with many axile ovules; style simple; stigma simple, 3-lobed or of 3 crests. Fruit a loculicidal capsule.
Genus Description
Bulbs of many, fleshey, overlapping scales. Leaves usually linear to lanceolate, spirally arranged. Infl. a terminal raceme (sometimes reduced to a single flower) on a leafy stem. Flowers funnel-shaped, weakly zygomorphic or campanulate, actinomorphic; tepals often reflexed, papillose at apex. Anthers dorsifixed. Stigma ± capitate. Margins capsule lobes not toothed. Seeds thin, flattened, densely stacked.
Species description
Bulb 2.5-3cm; scales 10-20, lanceolate, brown or yellowish. Flower stem (2-)9-50cm. Leaves linear, blunt, 3-10.5 x 0.15-0.65cm, lower sometimes wider than upper. Flower single, drooping, campanulate, deep reddish-purple to lilac, inside usually paler, with varying degrees of darker flecking. Tepals narrowly elliptic, contracted at extreme tip, apex not reflexed, with tufts of branched hairs at base on both sides of basal nectar furrow, 1.7-3.1 x 0.7-1.4cm, inner usually wider and broader at apex. Filaments greenish, 0.6-1.4cm; anthers dull orange to dark purple or brown, 2-4.5mm. Ovary cylindric, 0.6-1cm, striped; style 1.5-8mm. Capsule pale with longitudinal purplish-brown stripes, oblong-ellipsoid, truncate, segments 1.5-2.5 x 0.9-1.3cm. Seeds pale brown, pear-shaped, narrowly (c.0.6mm) winged.
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
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📚 Natural History
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Meadows and grassland; peaty hillsides; among rocks in open, by river or commonly among shrubs(rhododendron, juniper, potentilla, etc).
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📚 Uses and Management
🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Liliopsida |
| Order | Liliales |
| Family | Liliaceae |
| Genus | Lilium |
| Species | Lilium nanum Klotzsch.f nanum |
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