Lilium medeoloides

Lilium medeoloides

Lilium medeoloides is a species in the genus of lilies ( Lilium) in the Martagon section.

Description

The nearly round bulb has a diameter of 2 to 2.5 inches and is made up of white, oblong- lanceolate, loose scales that are 1-2 inches long and 3-4 mm wide. The smooth, sometimes weakly papillary stalk is 30 to 75 (rarely to 100) inches long, are to him the leaves in whorls of seven to twelve ( rarely up to twenty) pieces, in addition, there are a few individual leaves on the stalk distributed. The hairless, at the margin slightly rough leaves are oblong - lanceolate to reverse- lanceolate, run towards the end tapered and are 5-12 (rarely to 17) cm long and 1.5 to 4 centimeters wide.

Bloom time is from July to August. The inflorescence is either a single flower or a two to four ( rarely up to ten) nodding, not fragrant flowers umbel or grape. The lance-shaped, thick bloom are strongly recurved, apricot -colored to light red with black spots, just at the tip papillose, 3.5 to 4 ( 3 to 4.5 ) cm long and 5-10 mm wide. The stamens are shorter than the bracts, the stamens glabrous, the anthers about 1 centimeter long. The ovary is about 1 inch long, the style is occasionally thickened towards the tip. The capsule is inversely ovate, dreifächrig and 1.5 to 2 inches long.

Dissemination

Lilium medeoloides is located in the People's Republic of China ( Zhejiang), Japan, Korea ( Jeju -do) and Russia ( Kamchatka, Kuril Islands, Sakhalin) and estimated half-shaded, fresh locations. It grows in forests on moist slopes between shrubs, near rivers and near tall grasses in subalpine meadows on moist and humus-rich lime and silicate soils. From stocks of meadows and woods in starting to find the kind occasionally in rock adjacent vegetation.

Systematics and Botanical History

Lilium medeoloides heard within the lilies to the section Martagon. It is closely related tsingtauense with Lilium Lilium and debilitated, the latter was often used as a synonym treated with Lilium medeoloides. Synonyms are Lilium avenaceum fish. ex rule and Lilium sado - insular Masam. & Satomi.

The species was on Hokkaido (Japan) discovered in 1853 by Charles Wright in 1859, first described by Asa Gray, the holotype is located in the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University. In Japan Lilium medeoloides was for centuries a popular garden plant until 1864, however, it was cultivated in the West.

Swell

• Mark Wood: Lily Species - Notes and Images. CD-ROM. Amended on 13 July 2006.