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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: yijiawang on May 04, 2011, 05:14:14 PM

Title: Fritillaria albidoflora
Post by: yijiawang on May 04, 2011, 05:14:14 PM
Cute new species....
Title: Re: Fritillaria albidoflora
Post by: Maggi Young on May 04, 2011, 05:17:45 PM
Very cute!

http://tropicos.info/Name/50068518
Title: Re: Fritillaria albidoflora
Post by: arisaema on May 04, 2011, 05:49:26 PM
There's an interesting note in FoC:

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Martyn Rix (pers. comm.) notes that Fritillaria verticillata commonly has an inflorescence with only one flower, and that reports of several-flowered plants are the result of longstanding confusion between this species and F. thunbergii. Rix also notes that F. albidoflora may be distinct from F. verticillata differing as follows: flowers opening nearly flat (vs. campanulate), tepals 2--3 cm (vs. 3--5 cm), and nectaries orbicular (vs. ovate), ca. 6 mm above base of tepal.
Title: Re: Fritillaria albidoflora
Post by: yijiawang on May 05, 2011, 01:43:38 AM
There's an interesting note in FoC:

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Martyn Rix (pers. comm.) notes that Fritillaria verticillata commonly has an inflorescence with only one flower, and that reports of several-flowered plants are the result of longstanding confusion between this species and F. thunbergii. Rix also notes that F. albidoflora may be distinct from F. verticillata differing as follows: flowers opening nearly flat (vs. campanulate), tepals 2--3 cm (vs. 3--5 cm), and nectaries orbicular (vs. ovate), ca. 6 mm above base of tepal.

This is really F.verticillata, very similar to F.tortifolia but still light difference on nectaries
Title: Re: Fritillaria albidoflora
Post by: Lesley Cox on May 05, 2011, 10:47:07 PM
It is lovely and the seed capsules seem quite prominent at flowering time, or ovaries I suppose.
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