=Amana yunjuensisB. X. Han & X. W. Song syn. nov. Type. China. • Jiangxi Province: Jiujiang City, Mt. Yunju, 5 Mar 2019, Song SXW 190305 (holotype: ACM; isotype: PE). Description. Perennial herbs; bulbs ovoid, 0.87–3.0 cm in diameter, tunics yellowish-brown, thinly papery, sparely villous-woolly inside. Stems 1.8–16.8 cm tall, glabrous, simple. Leaves usually 2, opposite, green with white veins, oblanceolate; the lower leaf 7.8–30.6 × 0.9–3.1 cm, the upper leaf 11–28.9 × 0.7–1.9 cm. Scapes 1.5–10.5 cm tall, glabrous, simple. Bracts usually 3, verticillate, narrowly lanceolate, green, 2–5 × 0.3–0.75 cm; pedicels 1.1–6.6 cm. Flowers solitary, funnel-shaped; tepals 6, white or light-pink, with a green or yellowish-green blotch at the very base inside and purple-red or light-pink streaks on the back; outer tepals lanceolate, acute, 2.3–4.5 × 0.6–0.95 cm, inner tepals elliptic-lanceolate, acute, 2.1–4.25 × 0.7–1.15 cm. Stamens 6, two-wheeled, the inner three slightly longer than the outer; filaments yellowish-green, 5–8.5 (9) mm long, middle slightly dilated, gradually attenuate towards apex, glabrous; anthers light-purplish, the outer three 5–9.5 mm long, the inner three 6–9.5 (10) mm long. Oval ovaries, yellowish-green, constricted below the style, 0.5–1 cm long, styles 0.4–0.7 cm long. Capsule subglobose, triquetrous, 0.5–1.31 cm in diameter, apex long beaked, 0.4–0.91 cm long. Fl. March – April, fr. April – May. Phenology. Flowering from March to April; fruiting from April to May. Distribution and habitat. Amana anhuiensis is distributed in Mt. Tianzhu in Anhui Province, Mt. Yunju and Mt. Lu in Jiangxi Province and Tuanfeng County in Hubei Province, China (Fig. 6). It mostly grows in moist deciduous broad-leaved forests and bamboo forests, at elevations of 600–1,710 m. Additional specimens examined. China. • Anhui Province: Qianshan County, Mt. Tianzhu, Zongguanzhai (总关寨), 850–1300 m, Fl. & Fr., 14 March 2002, Dunyan Tan 006 (PE); ibidem, 1207 m, Fr., 9 May 2015, Minqi Cai CMQ 2015075 (HZU); ibidem, 1183 m, Fl., 4 April 2016, Minqi Cai CMQ 16215 (HZU); ibidem, 1183 m, Fl., 24 March 2019, Pan Li & Junke Li LJK 62 (HZU); Qianshan County, Mt. Tianzhu, Foguang Temple (佛光禅寺), 697 m, Fl., 4 April 2016, Minqi Cai CMQ 16216 (HZU); Qianshan County, Mt. Tianzhu (天柱山), 1711 m, Fl., 6 March 2021, Pan Li et al. WMZ 1480 (HZU). • Jiangxi Province: Jiujiang City, Yongxiu County, Mt. Yunju, Zhenru Temple (真如寺), 703 m, Fl., 21 March 2019, Pan Li & Junke Li LJK 63 (HZU); ibidem, 711 m, Fl. & Fr., 10 March 2021, Pan Li et al. WMZ 1499 (HZU); Jiujiang City, Mt. Lu, Shimenjian (石门涧), 616 m, Fl., 11 March 2023, Tongjun Liang LTJ 20230308 (LBG). • Hubei Province: Huanggang City, Tuanfeng County, Jiamiao Town, 789 m, Fl., 5 March 2023, Xinxin Zhu WMZ 1750 (HZU). Conservation status. Amana anhuiensis is only known from four places in Mt. Tianzhu, Mt. Lu, Mt. Yunju and Tuanfeng County, but with thousands of individuals at each site, thus we suspect that Amana anhuiensis could be categorized as Vulnerable (VU) according to IUCN criteria (IUCN 2022).

Published as part of Wang, Meizhen, Zhang, Shenlu, Guo, Liang, Ma, Qing & Li, Pan, 2026, Revision of Amana yunjuensis (Liliaceae) based on morphological and molecular evidence: synonym of Amana anhuiensis, pp. 275-288 in PhytoKeys 269 on pages 275-288, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.269.181258