Section Amethystina photographs

Section Amethystina Balf.f., J. Roy. Hort. Soc. 39:153. 1913.

Type specimen: P. amethystina Franch.

P. amethystina
--- subsp. amethystina
--- subsp. argutidens
------ P. argutidens
------ P. riae
--- subsp. brevifolia
------ P. brevifolia
------ P. sikangensis
P. dickieana
--- var. aureostellata
------ P. aureostellata
--- P. pantlingii
P. faberi
--- P. cylindriflora
--- P. lecomtei
P. kingii
--- P. gageana
--- P. dickieana var. gouldii
P. odontica
P. silaensis
P. valentiniana
P. virginis
--- P. leimonophila
--- P. petrophyes

Deciduous with a small resting bud, leaves involute (often becoming revolute), efarinose, non-hairy, usually with a horny margin with more of less remote teeth, pitted glands on the surface, indistinct petiole. Scape glabrous and efarinose (sometimes a faint trace of farina), corolla bell shaped (except for P. dickieana), usually exannulate, but faintly present in P. amethystina and in some pin-eyed flowers of the other species. Capsule is as long as the calyx or slightly longer.