Description
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Roots numerous, long, soft, usually with fusiform, tuberous part near tip. Stem rhizomelike, elongate, stout, with dense nodes. Leaves somewhat crowded and subterminal, sessile, abaxially glaucous, grasslike or sword-shaped, 20--40 × 0.7--1.4 cm, ca. 9-veined, margin serrulate, membranous at base. Scape 10--15 cm. Inflorescence a reduced panicle, 5--7 cm, densely many flowered; bracts subulate, basal one 5--7 mm. Flowers solitary or paired; pedicel 3--5 mm, articulate near middle. Tepals white to blue, ovate, 4--5 × 1.5--2 mm. Filaments ca. 0.5 mm; anthers ca. 2 mm. Style ca. 2.5 mm. Seeds bluish gray at maturity, ellipsoid to ovoid-globose, ca. 8 mm in diam. Fl. May--Jul, fr. Jul--Aug. 2 n = 36*.
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Distribution
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Guizhou, Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan.
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Habitat
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* Forests, ravines, moist and shady places; 800--2100 m.
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Synonym
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Anemarrhena mairei (H. Léveillé) H. Léveillé.
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