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Basal leaves linear. Stem with one or two bracts. Inflorescence 
branched with scattered flowers. Bracts twice or four times shorter 

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Fig. 11. Zygadenus elegans Pursh. 4/s nat size. Fig. 12. Zygadenus sibiricus (L.) Endl. 2/s nat. size. 
(Spec. from Port Clarence), (Spec. from North Siberia). 
than the pedicels. Sepals linear-lanceolate, acute, reflexed, somewhat 
twisted, coherent below, with a bipartite obcordate nectary-gland. 
As.: Mouths of the Lena (!) and Kolyma. 
Geogr. area: Siberia. 
