Vasilis Teodoridis:
Liliaceae | Polygonatum
37. Polygonatum cirrhifolium (Wallich) Royle; Ill. Bot. Himal. Mts. 1: 380. 1839.
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Polygonatum cirrhifolium
Credit: Harvard University Herbaria
Convallaria cirrhifolia Wallich; Asiat. Res. 13: 382. 1820; Polygonatum bulbosum H. Léveillé; P. cirrhifoliodes D. M. Liu & W. Z. Zeng; P. fargesii Hua; P. fuscum Hua; P. lebrunii H. Léveillé; P. mairei H. Léveillé (1909; not 1912); P. souliei Hua; P. strumulosum D. M. Liu & W. Z. Zeng; P. trinerve Hua.
Rhizome moniliform or tuberous terete; 1--2 cm thick. Stem erect or scandent; 30--90 cm; glabrous. Leaves in whorls of 3--6; rarely also a few alternate in proximal part of stem; sessile; narrowly linear to linear-lanceolate; very rarely oblong-lanceolate; 4--9(--12) cm x 2--8(--15) mm; apex usually cirrose at anthesis. Inflorescences usually 2-flowered; peduncle 3--10 mm; bracts 1--2 mm; scarious; veinless; or bract absent. Flowers pendulous; pedicel 3--8 mm. Perianth white; greenish; or pale purple; subcylindric; slightly constricted in middle; 8--11 mm; lobes ca. 2 mm. Filaments 0.6--0.8 x ca. 0.15 mm; papillose; anthers 2--2.5 mm. Ovary ca. 2.5 mm. Style ca. 2 mm. Berries red or purple-red; 8--9 mm in diam.; 4--9-seeded. Fl. May--Jul; fr. Sep--Oct. 2 n = (20*; 24*); 30* (38).
Forests; grassy slopes; 2000--4000 m. Gansu; Guangxi; Ningxia; Qinghai; Shaanxi; Sichuan; Xizang; Yunnan [Bhutan; India; Nepal; Sikkim].