Aletris pauciflora var. khasiana (Hook. fil.) F. T. Wang & Tang

Flowering from April to August; fruiting from June to October.

Aletris pauciflora var. khasiana is close relative of Aletris pauciflora var. pauciflora, but differs from the latter in its bract subequaling flower (vs. bract obviously longer than flower, to 4 times flower length).

Aletris pauciflora var. khasiana is occurring in Sichuan, Xizang, Yunnan of China, NE India.

Roots thickened, fleshy. Rhizome stout, sometimes clump-forming, often surrounded by a dense collar of persistent fibers from disintegrated leaf bases. Leaves usually 5-10 and laxly tufted, sometimes more numerous and dense, linear-lanceolate to linear, 3-25 cm long, 1-10 mm wide. Scape 3.5-40 cm. Raceme 1-20 cm, densely to laxly 4-40-flowered, rachis pubescent. Flowers distinctly pedicellate; pedicel 1-12 mm, pubescent; bract and bracteole borne at or near apex of pedicel; bract lanceolate to narrowly linear-lanceolate, 3-20 mm long, subequaling flower, glabrous, apex obtuse to rounded. Perianth dark red, red, pink, orange, yellow, greenish yellow, or white, 3.5-6 mm, glabrous; tube campanulate; lobes usually recurved, sometimes erect, oblong-ovate to lanceolate, 1.5-2.5 mm long, 0.8-1.5 mm wide, 0.6-1 times tube length, apex obtuse to rounded. Capsule ovoid-ellipsoid or ovoid-conical, 4-6 mm long, 2.5-4 mm wide, apex of valves gradually narrowed; style to 0.5 mm; stigma thickened.

Growing in forests, bamboo scrub, swamps, shady rocks; 1500-4900 m.