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|accepted_name=Scoliopus
|accepted_authority=Torrey
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Pacif. Railr. Rep.
|place=4(5): 145, plate 22. 1857
|year=1857
}}
|common_names=Slink pod;fetid adder’s-tongue;slink-lily
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Liliaceae;Scoliopus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Liliaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Scoliopus]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek skolios, crooked, and - pous, footed, alluding to the tortuous, recurved pedicels
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 14, 15, 51, 56, 57
|treatment_page=page 118
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, with short, knotty rhizomes; roots contractile. <b>Stems</b> subterranean, simple, vertical, short. <b>Leaves</b> 2–3(–4), petiolate or subsessile, sheathing at base; blade dark green distally, paler proximally, sometimes mottled with purple, elliptic to oblong, apex obtuse. <b>Inflorescences</b> umbellate, with several axillary fascicles of elongate, twisting pedicels. <b>Flowers</b> showy, odor unpleasant; perianth of 2 dissimilar whorls of tepals, outer spreading or recurving, distinct, petaloid, ovate to lanceolate to oblanceolate, with oblong gland basally, inner erect, distinct, linear, converging over pistil; stamens 3, opposite outer tepals; anthers versatile, 2-locular, oblong, extrorse; ovary superior, 1-locular, strongly 3-angled, placentation parietal; style erect, short; stigmas persistent, 3, spreading to recurved, linear, inner surface deeply channelled, ovules 20–40, in 2 rows on each placenta. <b>Fruits</b> capsular, brownish purple, oblong-lanceolate, strongly 3-angled, thin-walled, opening irregularly by decay, beaked by persistent style and stigmas. <b>Seeds</b> slightly curved, oblong, eliaosome present. <b>x</b> = 7, 8.</span><!--

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|distribution=w North America.
|discussion=<p>Species 2 (2 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=berg1959a
|text=Berg, R. Y. 1959. Seed dispersal, morphology and taxonomic position of Scoliopus, Liliaceae. Skr. Norske Vidensk.-Akad. Oslo, Mat.-Naturvidensk. Kl. 1959(4): 1–56.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=cave1966a
|text=Cave, M. S. 1966. The chromosomes of Scoliopus (Liliaceae). Madroño 18: 211–213.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=utech1979a
|text=Utech, F. H. 1979b. Floral vascular anatomy of Scoliopus bigelovii Torrey (Liliaceae-Parideae = Trilliaceae) and tribal note. Ann. Carnegie Mus. 48: 43–71.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=utech1992a
|text=Utech, F. H. 1992. Biology of Scoliopus (Liliaceae). I. Systematics and phytogeography. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 79: 126–142.
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaves 14–24 cm; pedicel 11–22 cm; outer tepals 12.5–19 mm; style 4.5–6 mm.
|[[Scoliopus bigelovii|Scoliopus bigelovii]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaves 8–14 cm; pedicel 6–10 cm; outer tepals 6.5–10 mm; style 2–2.5 mm.
|[[Scoliopus hallii|Scoliopus hallii]]
|}
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name=Scoliopus
|author=Frederick H. Utech
|authority=Torrey
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Liliaceae
|distribution=w North America.
|reference=berg1959a;cave1966a;utech1979a;utech1992a
|publication title=Pacif. Railr. Rep.
|publication year=1857
|special status=
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|genus=Scoliopus
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