Lilium eupetes

Lilium eupetes is a recently discovered and described epiphytic species of lily from the north of Vietnam.[1][2]

Lilium eupetes
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L. eupetes
Binomial name
Lilium eupetes
J.M.H.Shaw

Lilium eupetes reproduces by seed and vegetatively via the production of bulbils dispersed by wind. When the leaves die back they wither and curl into a circle. This eventually detaches from the stem, and acts as the functional equivalent of a samara, carrying the attached bulbil to a new site.[1]

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