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Lilium nanum

(Lilium nanum)

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Description

Lilium nanum is a perennial herbaceous plant with a stature height of 8 to 42 centimeters. The onions are oblong-ovate, 2 to 4 inches high and reach a diameter of about 1 to 2.3 centimeters. The 9 to 22 loose scales are white and narrow lanceolate, usually 2 to 2.5 inches high, 0.3 to 0.8 inches wide and one roof tile superimposed. The slender and upright green stem is cylindrical and glabrous and between 0.15 and 0.3 inches thick. From approach to near the end it is evenly occupied with eight to fourteen spiraling leaves arranged these are broad-linear to narrow-linear, between 5 and 15.5 inches long and between 0.2 and 0.7 inches wide. They are hairless, obtuse to rounded, adaxial (= facing the axis), concave, and have three to seven indistinct nerves The lowest leaves are significantly reduced, occasionally even on membranous shoots

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum:
Class: Liliopsida
Order:Liliales
Family:Liliaceae
Genus:Lilium
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