Tricyrtis formosana

Tricyrtis formosana is an East Asian species of herbaceous plant in the lily family.[3][2] It is native to Taiwan and to Nansei-shoto (also known as the Ryukyu Islands, part of Japan).

Tricyrtis formosana
1914 illustration [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Liliales
Family: Liliaceae
Genus: Tricyrtis
Species:
T. formosana
Binomial name
Tricyrtis formosana
Synonyms[2]
  • Compsoa formosana (Baker) Kuntze

Description
Tricyrtis formosana - National Botanic Gardens (Ireland)

Tricyrtis formosana is an herb up to 80 cm tall, sometimes branching but sometimes not. Flowers are trumpet-shaped, light purple with darker purple spots.[4]

Varieties[2]
  • Tricyrtis formosana var. formosana - Taiwan, Iriomote
  • Tricyrtis formosana var. glandosa (T.Shimizu) T.S.Liu & S.S.Ying - Taiwan
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References

Media related to Tricyrtis formosana at Wikimedia Commons

  1. lithograph by J.N.Fitch published in Curtis's Botanical Magazine, London., vol. 140 (= ser. 4, vol. 10), plate 8560
  2. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. Baker, John Gilbert 1879. Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 17(103): 465
  4. Flora of China Vol. 24 Page 152 台湾油点草 tai wan you dian cao Tricyrtis formosana Baker, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 17: 465. 1879.


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