生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Rhizome corm-like, globose or elongate globose, thickened; stem 50-150 cm long, 5-6 mm across, terete, glabrous, green.
• Leaves 7-14, oblong to ovate-oblong, 10-18 cm long, 4-7 cm wide, apex acuminate to acute, base attenuate to narrowed, chartaceous to membranous, margins entire to slightly undulate, upper surface lustrous green, lower surface pale green, 3-nerved, nerves impressed on upper surface, elevated beneath, sometimes tinged purple; petiole 1.5-4 cm long, green to purple, glabrous.
• Flowers 1-1.5 cm in diam.; pedicle 5-10 cm long, green tinged purple, glabrous; perianth greenish to yellowish green; segments 8-14; outer tepals lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 4.5-7 cm long, 1.5-2.5 cm wide, apex acuminate, base somewhat contracted; inner tepals linear, 3-5 cm long, 1-2 mm wide; stamens many, filaments flat, 4-7 mm long; anthers linear, 5-8 mm long, free portion of connective prominent, filiform, 1.5-2 mm long; ovary globose, glabrous, styles 5 or 6, glabrous.
• Huang and Yang’s report of <i>D. fargesii</i> from Taiwan is based on the 4 or 5 leaved form of <i>Paris polyphylla</i>; the number of leaves of <i>P. polyphylla</i> ranges from 4 to 7, sometimes even to 9. The perianth segments of <i>P. polyphylla</i> also vary in shape and size according to leaf variation.

分布

• 台灣 : forests, 200-1,500 m, throughout the island, rather common.
• 世界 : The Himalaya, mainland China.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Bunzangun, Suzuki 16452; Tatunshan, Sasaki s. n. Jun 1928, Yoshida s. n. 6 Dec 1942; Kuanyingshan, Fukuyama s. n. 16 Jun 1941, Nakamura s. n. 17 Mar 1940. ILAN: Chienting Ridge, Huang 7698; Taipingshan, Chuang, Chao & Kao 4823. HSINCHU: Kuanwu, Huang 6620. NANTOU: Nenkaoshan, Fukuyama s. n. 20 Apr 1936.

參考文獻

• YING, Shao-Shun, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 57. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)