Flora of North America species comparison

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Lloydia

alp-lily, lloydia
Habit Herbs, perennial, caulescent, glabrous, from short rhizomes with persistent leaf sheaths simulating brown, papery, tunicate bulbs.
Leaves

2–8, reduced and alternate distally;

blade linear or lanceolate.
Inflorescences

terminal, racemose, 1–2[–several]-flowered, loose, leafy-bracteate.
Flowers

slightly fragrant;

perianth white with greenish to purplish veins, or yellow;

tepals marcescent, 6, spreading, distinct, equal, transversely corrugate, with small, nectariferous gland above base;

stamens 6, inserted at base of tepals;

filaments slender;

anthers basifixed, ellipsoid, latrorse;

ovary superior, 3-locular;

style persistent, distinct, 3-fid, short, lobes short.
Fruit

capsular, obovoid to globose, dehiscence loculicidal.
Seeds

black, 3-angled.
x

= 12.

Lloydia
Distribution
from USDA
w North America; Eurasia
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Species 10–12 (1 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 26, p. 198. Authors: James L. Reveal, Frederick H. Utech.
Parent taxa Liliaceae
Subordinate taxa
L. serotina
Name authority Salisbury ex Reichenbach: Fl. Germ. Excurs., 102. (1830)
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