Lloydia tibetica Baker ex Oliver var. purpurascens Franchet.

Plants 15--30 cm tall. Bulb 2--3 cm × 5--7 mm. Basal leaves usually 4--8, narrowly linear, shorter than stem, 1--2(--5) mm wide; cauline leaves 2 or 3, 2--3.5 cm × 1--2 mm, margin usually white pubescent-ciliate especially near base. Inflorescence 1- or 2-flowered; bracts 6--12 mm, margin white ciliate. Tepals white, mottled with purple proximally, obovate-elliptic, 1.5--2 cm × 5--6 mm, with several lines of hairs near base adaxially. Stamens 7--9 mm; filaments densely villous. Ovary oblong, 3--4 mm. Style 3--4 mm. Capsule narrowly oblong, 1.5--2 cm × ca. 4 mm. Seeds narrowly ovate-linear, ca. 2.5 mm, longitudinally 3-angled. Fl. Jun--Jul, fr. Aug.

The Himalayan species Lloydia longiscapa Hooker was recorded from NW Yunnan by Handel-Mazzetti (Symb. Sin. 7: 1202. 1936, based on Handel-Mazzetti 6700) and later stated to occur in W China, including S Xizang, by Hara (in Ohashi, Bull. Univ. Mus. Univ. Tokyo 8: 133. 1975). It is closely related to L. ixiolirioides but differs in having glabrous tepals. None of the many specimens examined for this treatment belongs to L. longiscapa; therefore, the species is excluded until its presence in China can be confirmed.

* Shady slopes, grasslands; 3000--4300 m. Sichuan, Xizang, Yunnan.