View source for Trillium decipiens

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Trillium decipiens
|accepted_authority=J. D. Freeman
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Brittonia
|place=27: 17, fig. 3. 1975
|year=1975
}}
|common_names=Deceiving trillium
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Liliaceae;Trillium;Trillium subg. Phyllantherum;Trillium decipiens
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Liliaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Trillium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Trillium subg. Phyllantherum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Trillium decipiens]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 95, 116
|treatment_page=page 108
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Rhizomes </b>horizontal, brownish, thick, praemorse, not brittle. <b>Scapes</b> 1–3, green or bronze-green, round in cross section, 1.7–4.4 dm, stout, glabrous. <b>Bracts</b> held horizontally, not drooping, tips at anthesis held well above ground, sessile; blade usually very strongly marked with at least 3 shades of dark green, bronze green, and purplish green, often with light central strip, mottling becoming obscure with age, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, widest at ca. 1/3 of length from basal attachment, tapered very gradually to tip, 8–17+ × 4.9–8.5 cm, rounded basally, margins of distal 1/3 straight, apex acute. <b>Flower</b> faintly ill-scented; sepals divergent-ascending, streaked with green to maroon, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 36–68 × 12–21 mm, margins entire, flat or slightly raised adaxially, apex acute; petals long-lasting, erect, ± connivent, ± partially concealing stamens and ovary, maroon-purple, brownish purple to brown, greenish streaked to green, rarely yellow, becoming brown, or occasionally bright copper-bronze with age, not spirally twisted, veins not engraved, obovate to oblanceolate, large in proportion to leaf size compared to many species, 5–9 × 1–2 cm, 2+ times longer than wide, widest at or just above middle, thick-textured, margins entire, flat, apex acute, obtuse, or rounded; stamens erect or incurving, 12–24 mm; filaments yellow, 2–3 mm; anthers erect, straight, rarely arcuate, yellow, 10–15 mm, dehiscence latrorse; connectives straight, projecting 1–2 mm beyond anther sacs; ovary dark red, brown, or gray, ellipsoid, strongly 6-angled, 6–13 mm; stigmas basally erect, tips recoiled upon ovary, distinct, green, white, or purple, linear, short, 3–12 mm, slightly thickened basally, not fleshy. <b>Fruits</b> baccate, dark green to purple, odor not reported, ellipsoid, strongly grooved and ridged, pulpy or mealy. <b>2n</b> = 10.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering winter–mid spring (late Jan–early Apr).
|habitat=Rich woods and bluffs in mixed deciduous forests of oak, red maple, beech, elm, and others, also thinner upland oak woods, in depressions and in ravines, low sandy-alluvial slopes to local rivers
|elevation=50–100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.
|tables=
|references=
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name=Trillium decipiens
|authority=J. D. Freeman
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Liliaceae
|phenology=Flowering winter–mid spring (late Jan–early Apr).
|habitat=Rich woods and bluffs in mixed deciduous forests of oak, red maple, beech, elm, and others, also thinner upland oak woods, in depressions and in ravines, low sandy-alluvial slopes to local rivers
|elevation=50–100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Fla.;Ga.
|reference=None
|publication title=Brittonia
|publication year=1975
|special status=
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|genus=Trillium
|subgenus=Trillium subg. Phyllantherum
|species=Trillium decipiens
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