Scoliopus
fetid Adder's-tongue, slink pod, slink-lily
subterranean, simple, vertical, short.
2–3(–4), petiolate or subsessile, sheathing at base;
blade dark green distally, paler proximally, sometimes mottled with purple, elliptic to oblong, apex obtuse.
umbellate, with several axillary fascicles of elongate, twisting pedicels.
showy, odor unpleasant;
perianth of 2 dissimilar whorls of tepals, outer spreading or recurving, distinct, petaloid, ovate to lanceolate to oblanceolate, with oblong gland basally, inner erect, distinct, linear, converging over pistil;
stamens 3, opposite outer tepals;
anthers versatile, 2-locular, oblong, extrorse;
ovary superior, 1-locular, strongly 3-angled, placentation parietal;
style erect, short;
stigmas persistent, 3, spreading to recurved, linear, inner surface deeply channelled, ovules 20–40, in 2 rows on each placenta.
capsular, brownish purple, oblong-lanceolate, strongly 3-angled, thin-walled, opening irregularly by decay, beaked by persistent style and stigmas.
slightly curved, oblong, eliaosome present.
= 7, 8.
Scoliopus
Species 2 (2 in the flora).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Leaves 14–24 cm; pedicel 11–22 cm; outer tepals 12.5–19 mm; style 4.5–6 mm. | S. bigelovii |
1. Leaves 8–14 cm; pedicel 6–10 cm; outer tepals 6.5–10 mm; style 2–2.5 mm. | S. hallii |
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