Amana wanyuensis B.X.Han,S.Y.Yi & X.W.Song, 1935

Song, Xiangwen, Li, Guangyan, Wang, Wei, Xu, Tao, Gao, Xinyi, Han, Bangxing & Yi, Shanyong, 2024, Amana wanyuensis (Liliaceae), a new species from the Dabieshan Mountains, Anhui Province, China, Phytotaxa 658 (3), pp. 289-295 : 291

Amana wanyuensis B.X.Han,S.Y.Yi & X.W.Song , sp. nov. (ÊDzƺṉ¨) (Figs 2,3)

Type:— CHINA. Anhui Province: Jinzhai County, Luan City , Mt. Jingangtai , 20 Mar 2021, Song SXW210320 (holotype: ACM; isotype: PE) .

The new species differs from A. edulis in having an ovoid bulb without a villous interior, a white flower and adaxially greyish leaves that are white in fruit.

Perennial herbs with ovoid bulbs, 1.5–2.5 cm in diameter, tunics brownish, without a villous interior. Stems unbranched, 25–40 cm tall, slender, glabrous. Leaves 2, opposite, needle shaped, green, 20.0–45.0 × 1.5–2.0 cm. Bracts usually 2 or 3, linear, green, 1.5–3 × 0.2–0.5 cm, 3–5 cm under the flower. Flowers mostly 1–5, funnel-shaped; tepals 6, white, with a deep yellow blotch at the base inside, white on the back, outer tepals lanceolate, 1.5–2.5 × 0.3–0.8 cm, inner tepals a little smaller. Stamens 6, in 2 whorls, anthers yellow, 0.3–0.5 cm long, filaments yellowish green, 0.5–0.8 cm long. Ovaries yellowish green, 0.5–1.0 cm long, stigma not oblique. Fruits triquetrous, 2.0–3.0 × 1.5–2.0 cm.

Habitat and distribution:— Primarily in moist, deciduous, broad-leaved forests, 700–1000 meters; documented on the slopes of Jingangtai Mountains, Anhui and Henan Provinces.

Phenology:— Growth initiated February, flowering February–March, fruiting March–April.

Etymology:— Derived from the name of the Jingangtai Mountains, due to the Jingangtai Mountains spanning Anhui and Henan Provinces (ÊDzƺṉ¨).