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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Scoliopus bigelovii
|accepted_authority=Torrey
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Pacif. Railr. Rep.
|place=4(5): 145, plate 22. 1857
|year=1857
}}
|common_names=Brownies;California fetid adder’s-tongue
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Liliaceae;Scoliopus;Scoliopus bigelovii
|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 class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Scoliopus bigelovii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 114
|treatment_page=page 118
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>6–20 cm. <b>Leaves</b> 2–3(–4), petiolate; blade often mottled with purple, elliptic to oblong, 14–24 × 4.5–8 cm. <b>Flowers</b> 3–12; outer tepals mottled with green and purple, ovate-lanceolate, 12.5–19 mm; inner tepals linear-subulate, 11.5–19 × 0.5 mm; filaments 2.3–4.3 mm; anthers 2–2.8 mm; style 4.5–6 mm; stigmas strongly recurved; pedicel strongly recurved in fruit, 11–22 cm. <b>Capsules</b> 22–30 × 6–9 mm, including beak. <b>2n</b> = 16.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late winter–early spring.
|habitat=Redwood and coastal coniferous forests, mossy mountain stream banks, shaded slopes
|elevation=0–500 m
|distribution=Calif.
|discussion=<p>R. Y. Berg (1959) demonstrated for <i>Scoliopus bigelovii</i> (and his findings also apply to <i>S. hallii</i>) that a single flower functions as three independent pollination units, a feature usually associated with <i>Iris</i> (F. H. Utech 1992).</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Scoliopus bigelovii
|authority=Torrey
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Liliaceae
|phenology=Flowering late winter–early spring.
|habitat=Redwood and coastal coniferous forests, mossy mountain stream banks, shaded slopes
|elevation=0–500 m
|distribution=Calif.
|reference=None
|publication title=Pacif. Railr. Rep.
|publication year=1857
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_145.xml
|genus=Scoliopus
|species=Scoliopus bigelovii
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