Fritillaria Sichuanica
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''Fritillaria sichuanica'' is a Chinese plant species of the lily family. It is found only in
China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
, found in the Provinces of
Gansu Gansu (, ; alternately romanized as Kansu) is a province in Northwest China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province. The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibet ...
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Qinghai Qinghai (; alternately romanized as Tsinghai, Ch'inghai), also known as Kokonor, is a landlocked province in the northwest of the People's Republic of China. It is the fourth largest province of China by area and has the third smallest po ...
, and
Sichuan Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of the ...
.Flora of China Vol. 24 Page 128 华西贝母 hua xi bei mu ''Fritillaria sichuanica'' S. C. Chen, Acta Bot. Yunnan. 5: 371. 1983.
/ref> It belongs to subgenus ''Fritillaria''. ''Fritillaria sichuanica'' produces bulbs up to 20 mm in diameter. Stem is up to 50 cm tall. Flowers are nodding (hanging downwards), yellow-green with deep purple spots the spots sometimes so dense that the flower appears from a distance to be more purple than yellow-green.Chen, Sing Chi 1983. Acta Botanica Yunnanica 5(4): 371, plate 1, figures 6–10


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sichuanica Endemic flora of China Plants described in 1983 {{Liliales-stub