新疆猪牙花 xin jiang zhu ya hua

Erythronium sibiricum Image Credit: Tatyana Shulkina

Erythronium dens-canis Linnaeus var. sibiricum Fischer et al., Index Sem. Hort. Petrop. 7: 47. 1841.

Plants 16--20 cm tall, ca. 1/3 length underground. Bulb 3--4 cm × 6--8 mm, basally often with several bulbels. Petiole 1.5--2.5 cm; leaf blade lanceolate to suboblong, 7--10 × 1--2.5 cm, glabrous, base cuneate, apex acuminate. Flower solitary, long pedunculate. Tepals white proximally, rose purple distally, oblong-lanceolate, ca. 3 cm × 5 mm, apex obtuse; inner tepals with 4 small, crowded calli near base adaxially and 2 spreading, lanceolate auricles laterally. Filaments flattened near middle, flattened portion ovate, ca. 1.5 mm wide. Anthers suboblong, ca. 3 mm. Style slightly thickened distally; stigma 3-lobed. 2 n = 24.

Forests, thickets, subalpine grasslands; 1100--2500 m. N Xinjiang [Kazakhstan, Russia].