平伐重楼 ping fa chong lou

Plants 30--50 cm tall. Rhizome 3--3.5 × ca. 1.2 cm. Leaves 5 or 6; petiole 1--1.5 cm; leaf blade elliptic or oblanceolate, 7.5--14 × 2.5--5.5 cm, base subcuneate. Outer tepals 5, green, lanceolate, 2.5--3.5 cm × 7--12 mm, base gradually narrowed into a short claw; inner ones filiform-linear, 3.5--5 cm × 1--2 mm. Stamens 10; filaments 3.5--4.5 mm; anthers 5.5--9 mm; free portion of connective 0.5--1.5 mm. Ovary green, 5-loculed; locules inconspicuous. Style with an enlarged base; stigma lobes 5. Fl. Jun. 2 n = 10*.

Shady and moist places in forests. Guizhou, Hunan, Yunnan [Myanmar].