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Shortia

Shortia
Family: Diapensiaceae
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Guy L. Nesom in Flora of North America (vol. 8)
Herbs, colonial, scapose, rhizomatous; rhizome slender, scale-leaved, lignescent. Stems erect, unbranched. Leaves basal, rosulate from rhizome buds, 30-80 mm; petiole present; blade orbiculate to elliptic-orbiculate, ovate-oblong, or ovate, margins coarsely crenate-serrate, apex emarginate to truncate, surfaces glabrous, pinnately veined. Scapes bracteate, elongating after flowering. Inflorescences solitary flowers. Flowers: sepals distinct; petals connate in proximal 1/4-1/2, corolla campanulate to funnelform, 15-25 mm, lobes white to rose-purple, margins obtusely toothed to laciniate or fringed; anthers 2-locular, without basal spurs, longitudinally dehiscent; filaments adnate to corolla tube; staminodes present. x = 6.

The Asian species of Shortia occur in Japan (three endemic), Taiwan and the Ryukyus (one endemic), and Yunnan Province, China (one endemic).

Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada
Cal deeply cleft; cor open-campanulate, cleft to the middle or below; stamens distinct; 5 small, scale-like staminodia incurved over the ovary; anthers inflexed, with 2 pollen-sacs; style filiform; stigma obscurely 3-lobed; capsule ovoid; evergreen, rhizomatous, perennial herbs with long-petioled basal lvs and erect scapes bearing (in our sp.) a rather large, solitary fl. 8, the others e. Asian.

Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

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Species within inventory project: Arizona Flora
Shortia brevistyla
Media resource of Shortia brevistyla
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Shortia galacifolia
Media resource of Shortia galacifolia
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Shortia rotundifolia
Media resource of Shortia rotundifolia
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Shortia uniflora
Media resource of Shortia uniflora
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