Fritillaria cirrhosa

Himalayan Fritillary; 川贝母 chuan bei mu
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Order:	Liliales
Family:	Liliaceae
Genus:	Fritillaria
Species:	F. cirrhosa
Binomial name
	Fritillaria cirrhosa; D.Don
Synonyms
	Baimo cirrhosa (D.Don) Raf.; Fritillaria cirrhosa var. bonatii (H.Lév.) S.C.Chen; Fritillaria cirrhosa var. brachyantha C.Marquand & Airy Shaw; Fritillaria cirrhosa var. dingriensis Y.K.Yang & J.Z.Zhang; Fritillaria cirrhosa var. jilongensis Y.K. Yang & Gesan; Fritillaria cirrhosa subsp. roylei (Hook.) Ali; Fritillaria cirrhosa var. viridiflava S.C.Chen; Fritillaria duilongdeqingensis Y.K.Yang & Gesan; Fritillaria gulielmi-waldemarii Klotzsch; Fritillaria lhiinzeensis Y.K.Yang & al.; Fritillaria polyphylla Fortune; Fritillaria roylei Hook.; Fritillaria zhufenensis Y.K.Yang & J.Z.Zhang; Lilium bonatii H.Lév.; Melorima cirrhosa (D.Don) Raf.;

Fritillaria cirrhosa is a herbaceous plant native to India, Nepal, Pakistan, Myanmar (Burma), Bhutan, Sikkim, Tibet, Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan, and Yunnan.^[2]^[3]

Fritillaria cirrhosa produces bulbs up to 20 mm in diameter. Stem is up to 60 cm tall, usually with one flower at the top, sometimes 2 or 3. Leaves are narrowly lanceolate, usually opposite, sometimes whorled, up to 13 cm long. Flowers are bell-shaped, yellowish-green to brownish-purple flowers which are usually with a chequered pattern in dull purple. The plant commonly found in alpine slopes and shrubberies of the Himalayas, at altitudes of 2700–4000 m.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

References

^ The Plant List
^ Flora of China Fritillaria cirrhosa
^ ^a ^b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Fritillaria cirrhosa
^ http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Himalayan%20Fritillary.html
^ Don, David. 1825. Prodromus Florae Nepalensis 51.
^ Yang, Yong Kang & Gesang, Suolang. 1985. Acta Botanica Boreali-Occidentalia Sinica. Yangling 5(1): 30, as Fritillaria duilongdeqingensis

External links

[1] The Plant List

[2] Flora of China Fritillaria cirrhosa

[sarahfazakerley-3] Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Fritillaria cirrhosa

[4] ttp://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Himalayan%20Fritillary.html

[5] Don, David. 1825. Prodromus Florae Nepalensis 51.

[6] Yang, Yong Kang & Gesang, Suolang. 1985. Acta Botanica Boreali-Occidentalia Sinica. Yangling 5(1): 30, as Fritillaria duilongdeqingensis

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