Adoxa moschatellina, a
perennial herb, 8-17cm in height, inhabits forests, extending white
slender, long rhizomes sideways to make corms at the ends, from
which sprout. Radical leaves, having long petioles, are of a
biternate compound leaf, the leaflets of which are pinnatifid in
segments afresh. On-stem leaves are of single opposite pairs with
short pedicles, cleft in three in a pinnate way. Flowers,
yellow-green, 4-6mm in diameter, set themselves as a gathering of
five on the stem tips. In an inflorescence, the head flower differs
from the other four side flowers; the head's corolla is cleft in
four, facing upward, and the four are cut in five and facing
sideways. Bloom time. March-April. |