| Streptopus streptopoides (Ledeb.) Frye & Rigg | |||
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| Family | Liliaceae — APG family: Liliaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Smilacina streptopoides Ledeb. | ||
| Description | Stem simple, glabrous, from slender, creeping rootstock; leaves glabrous; flowers 1-5 on recurved pedicels; perianth rotate, the segments twice as long as stamens; style lacking; the berry red. | ||
| Ecology | Moist places, mostly in forests. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Alaskan plant belongs to var. brévipes (Baker) Fassett (S. brevipes Baker, S. streptopoides subsp. brevipes Calder & Taylor), doubtfully distinct from the typical plant. S. streptopoides described from Ajan, Sitka; var. brevipes from the Cascade Mountains of Oregon. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.