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10. Gagea bulbifera (Pallas) Salisbury, Ann. Bot. (Oxford). 2: 557. 1806.

腋球顶冰花 ye qiu ding bing hua

Ornithogalum bulbiferum Pallas, Reise Russ. Reich. 2: 736. 1773.

Plants 4--6 cm tall. Bulb ovoid, 3--6 mm in diam.; tunic brown, surrounded by numerous roots. Stem gray-white pubescent or glabrescent in fruit. Leaves basal and cauline; basal leaves usually 2, filiform, 3--7 cm × 0.5--0.8 mm; cauline leaves (2 or)3--5. Inflorescence (1 or)2--4-flowered, racemose. Tepals yellow adaxially, green abaxially, narrowly oblong or linear-spatulate, 6--9 × 1.5--2 mm. Stamens 4--7 mm. Style ca. 2 × as long as ovary. Capsule oblong, 3-angled, 4--6 × 2--3 mm. Seeds flat. Fl. and fr. Apr. 2 n = 24.

Steppes on hillsides, dry grassy slopes; 600--1200 m. Xinjiang (Tian Shan) [India, Kazakhstan, Russia].


 

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