B. wuzhishanensis

Culture

Propagation Method

Seeds, leaf cuttings, tubers

Original Botanical Description or Link to

http://www.as-botanicalstudies.com/content/55/1/24 “Herbs, monoecious, deciduous perennial, with elongate tubers. Tubers prostrate on soil surface or underground, to 7 cm long, 0.9 cm across, branched or unbranched. Stems erect, succulent, 0.3–0.5 cm across, to 20 (−25) cm high at anthesis, branched from lower nodes. Leaves alternate, petioles 2.5–4 cm long, 0.4 cm across; stipules triangular, margin fimbriate; leaf blade nearly symmetric, cordate, 3.5–8 cm long, 3–7.5 cm wide, chartaceous, adaxial surface green, slightly bullate, hirtellous, venation dark green and impressed, iridescent; leaf abaxial surface pale, veins reddish or red, manifestly elevated and hirtellous, margin irregularly double-serrate. Inflorescences axillary, dichasial cymes branched 2–3 times, peduncle 10–18 cm long, ca. 0.3 cm in diameter, hirtellous; lower bracts ovate, ca. 0.5 cm long, 0.3 cm wide, margin fimbriate, abaxially densely hirtellous, eventually deciduous. Staminate flower: pedicel sparingly hirtellous to nearly glabrous, 2–4 cm long, tepals 4, pinkish, outer 2 broadly ovate, ca. 1 cm long, 0.8 cm wide, abaxially glabrous to hirtellous, inner 2 lanceolate, ca. 0.8 cm long, 0.4 cm wide, glabrous; androecium zygomorphic, ca. 0.3 cm across; stamens ca. 25–30; filaments free, 0.1–0.2 cm long; anthers 2-locular, obovoid. Carpellate flower: pedicel sparingly hirtellous to subglabrous, 1.3–1.6 cm long, tepals 3, outer 2 broadly ovate to suborbicular, ca. 0.8 cm long, 0.8 cm wide, inner 1 lanceolate, ca. 0.6 cm long, 0.4 cm wide; ovary trigonous-ellipsoid, ca. 0.7 cm long, 0.5 cm across, white, glabrous, 3-winged, 3-locular; placentas septal; styles 3. Capsule nodding, ca. 1.6 cm long, 1.2 cm wide, wings unequal, triangular, abaxial wing ca. 1.2 cm tall, lateral wings ca. 0.4 cm tall, styles persistent.”