抱茎鹿药 bao jing lu yao

Tovaria forrestii W. W. Smith, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 8: 209. 1914; Smilacina forrestii (W. W. Smith) Handel-Mazzetti.

Plants 50--80 cm tall. Stem glabrous. Leaves 6--9, sessile; leaf blade ovate-elliptic or narrowly elliptic, 11--17 × 3--8 cm, thinly papery, base cordate and clasping stem, apex long acuminate. Inflorescence a panicle or raceme, 8--15 cm, many flowered; rachis laxly pubescent. Flowers solitary; pedicel 3--6 mm, pubescent. Perianth yellow-green, tinged purple; segments basally connate, forming a short tube ca. 1 mm, lobes spreading, subovate or deltoid-lanceolate, 2--3 × 1.4--1.8 mm. Filaments ca. 0.5 mm; anthers small. Style ca. 0.8 mm, nearly as long as ovary. Fl. Jun--Jul.

* Forests; 2800--3200 m. NW Yunnan.