Accession Data
Anemarrhena asphodeloides
Common Name: Zhi Mu
Family: Asparagaceae
Country of Origin: Mongolia to China
Description: Rhizome to 10 × 0.5--1.7 cm. Leaves 10--60 × 0.15--1 cm, glabrous, margin scabrid. Scape (20--)35--100 cm, glabrous. Raceme 10--50 cm; bracts ovate or ovate-orbicular, apex often long acuminate. Perianth segments pink, pale purple, or white, linear or narrowly oblong, 5--10 × 1--1.5 mm, persistent in fruit. Ovary ovoid, ca. 1.5 × 1 mm. Style ca. 1 mm. Capsule 0.8--1.5 × 0.3--0.6 cm including beaked apex, prominently 6-angled. Seeds black, narrowly oblong-elliptic, slightly curved, 7--12 × 2.5--3 mm. Fl. and fr. Jun--Sep.6
Accession Data
USDA Zone: 2-7
Accession #: 201900046
Accession Date: 2019-05-08 00:00:00
Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering
Location: 2301
Quantity: 3
Source: Richters Herbs 2019 - #S7150
Classification
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Subclass: monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Asparagaceae
SubFamily: Agavoideae
Tribe: Anemarrheneae
References
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Wednesday, 08 May, 2019.
- WCSP (2019). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Wednesday, 08 May, 2019.
- WikiSpecies. Last accessed on Wednesday, 08 May, 2019.
- ARS-GRIN Taxonomy. Last accessed on Wednesday, 08 May, 2019.
- Plants for a Future. Last accessed on Wednesday, 08 May, 2019.
- Flora of China. Last accessed on Wednesday, 08 May, 2019.
- Angiosperm Phylogeny Website at MoBot. Last accessed on Tuesday, 03 December, 2019.
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