Fritillaria anhuiensis S. C. Chen & S. F. Yin

Cultivated in Anhui for its bulbs, which are used medicinally.

Bulb of 2 or 3 subreniform scales, 1--2 cm in diam., with many smaller bulbels inside; bulbels ricelike, ovoid, obtusely conical or somewhat rhombic, varying in size. Stem 10--50 cm. Leaves 6--18, basal ones usually opposite or whorled, middle and distal ones vertilcillate, opposite, or alternate; leaf blade oblong-lanceolate, 10--15 × 0.5--2(--3.5) cm, apex acuminate. Inflorescence 1- or 2(--4)-flowered; bracts usually 3, apex acuminate. Flowers nodding, tubular-campanulate; pedicel 1--3 cm. Tepals commonly yellowish white or yellowish green spotted or tessellated with purple, rarely pure white or purple, oblong to elliptic, 3--5 × 1--1.5 cm; nectaries projecting abaxially. Filaments ca. 2 mm, glabrous. Style 3-lobed; lobes 2--6 mm. Capsule broadly winged; wings 5--10 mm wide. Fl. Mar--Apr, fr. May--Jun. 2 n = 24*.

Anhui, Henan.

* Forests, thickets, grassy slopes; 600--900 m.

Fritillaria anhuiensis var. albiflora S. C. Chen & S. F. Yin; F. anhuiensis f. jinzhaiensis Y. K. Yang & J. Z. Shao; F. ebeiensis G. D. Yu & G. Q. Ji; F. ebeiensis var. purpurea G. D. Yu & P. Li; F. hupehensis P. K. Hsiao & K. C. Hsia var. dabieshanensis M. B. Deng & K. Yao; F. shuchengensis Y. K. Yang et al.; F. wuyangensis Z. Y. Gao.

Fritillaria anhuiensis is a Chinese species of bulb-forming flowering plant in the lily family Liliaceae. It is native to Anhui and Henan Provinces in China.

Fritillaria anhuiensis produces bulbs up to 20 mm in diameter. Stem is up to 50 cm long, supporting usually 1 or 2 flowers but occasionally 3 or 4. Flowers are nodding (hanging downwards), usually yellowish with purple spots but sometimes white or purple.