Lilium pyi
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Lilium pyi is a plant type from the genus of lilies ( Lilium ). Little is known about the species and its taxonomic classification within the genus.
description
Lilium pyi is a species that reaches heights of between 40 and 60 centimeters. According to Léveillé's first description, it is characterized by an unusual and unique onion in the genus, the two of which are located 2 centimeters apart.
The furrowed, slightly downy hairy stem is slender and, with the exception of the lower base, densely leafed. The leaves are linear, 4 to 7 inches long and 3 to 5 millimeters wide, many-nerved, downy hairy and wavy at the edges.
It blooms with a medium-sized, nodding, terminal single flower, the elongated-round to lanceolate bracts ( tepals ) are multi-veined, bent back, clearly narrowed towards the base and dotted with dense dark red to blackish dots at the edge. The nectars are blackish and hairless.
The hairless stamens and the stylus , which is not thickened at the end, are of the same length and slightly shorter than the perianth . The anthers are elongated.
The plant has strong similarities with Lilium concolor var. Pulchellum , but differs, inter alia, by the non-elongated stylus , the double onion and particularly strong at the edge of the bloom puncturing of the latter.
Distribution and Botanical History
The species is native to the west of the Yunnan Province in the People's Republic of China and was collected only once on August 7, 1906 between Nieou-Ko-Chan and Pin-Tchouan by Jean Py, he is honored by the species epithet . It was first described by Augustin Abel Hector Léveillé in 1909 , Haw considers it likely that it can be assigned to a different species, the Flora of China currently lists it as an "unclear species", as no type specimen has survived .
proof
Much of the information in this article has been obtained from the following sources:
- Augustin Abel Hector Léveillé: LXIII. Decades plantarum novarum. XIII. XIV. In: Friedrich Fedde (Ed.): Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis. Centralblatt for the collection and publication of single diagnoses of new plants . tape 6 . Berlin 1909, p. 263 ( online [accessed February 3, 2009]).
- Liang Songyun, Minoru N. Tamura: Lilium pyi . In: Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven, Hong Deyuan (eds.): Flora of China . tape 24 . Missouri Botanical Garden Press / Science Press, St. Louis / Beijing 2000, ISBN 978-0-915279-83-8 , pp. 149 ( online [accessed February 3, 2009]).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stephen G. Haw: The Lilies of China. 1986, p. 64, ISBN 0881920347