Lilium eupetes
Lilium eupetes is a kind in the Asian section of the genus of lilies ( Lilium). The epiphytic living species is known only from North Vietnam. It was first described in 2008.
Description
Lilium eupetes is an epiphytic growing, perennial, herbaceous plant, the plant height can reach up to 45 centimeters. The round bulb has a diameter of approximately 2.5 inches and is composed of yellowish- white, ovoid - clavate or oblong - round scales, at its outer end they taper to a point. At the base of the upright, bare, green stem to the roots.
The 17 to 19 alternate arranged, short -stalked leaves are lanceolate or narrow - elliptic, 5 to 6.5 (rarely over 3 ) inches long and 10 to 16 millimeters wide. They are up on the reddish colored midrib light green, glabrous on both sides and entire. In the axils of the upper leaves are often located one to three small, conical bulbils, while the wilting rotate the blades down a circular, at the falling of the leaf bulbils remain in it.
The usually solitary, rarely in pairs standing, nodding and bell - to star-shaped flowers appear on a maroon flower stalk. The bloom are internally consistent maroon, only on the outer sides of the tips of the outer as well as on the center rib of the inner greenish. The outer bracts are 4 inches long and 1.6 inches wide, ovate lanceolate, boat-shaped and on the surface finely papillose. Toward the outer end they are tapered and are easily bent back. The inner bracts are 4 inches long and about 1 inch wide, the nectar groove is papillose and greenish- yellow.
The stamens are directed away from the flower center and are shorter than the stylus that around 16 millimeters long stamens are bright red and glabrous, the anthers 11 to 12 millimeters long. The connective is red, the orange pollen.
The ovary is cylindrical in shape, shiny bright red and slightly shorter than the anthers. The chestnut red pen is weakly bent, the scar is white and only slightly wider than the pen.
The fruit is a light brown capsule, 3 inches long and 1.5 inches wide, to mature is the stem upright. The numerous seeds are disc-shaped, light brown, and measure about 2 millimeters in diameter.
Dissemination
The plants are found in the northern Vietnamese province of Lao Cai at altitudes 1900-2000 meters on moss substrates in tall trees and crotches.
More detailed information on the sites are currently not given, since illegal looting are feared by Chinese collection teams.
System
The species was discovered in 2006 by Bleddyn and Sue Wynn -Jones and first described in 2008 by Julian Mark Hugh Shaw. The Style epithet is derived from the Greek and means so much to her as "good fly". This refers to the propagation mechanism of Achselbulbillen, which can be widely supported by the falling leaf in remaining at the wilting during a ring -forming sheet.
Closely related Lilium arboricola, which otherwise only known living epiphytic lily.
Evidence
- Julian Shaw: Three new Crug Farm introductions In: The Plantsman ns, 7 ( 1), pp. 39-43, 2008 online (PDF, 299 kB)