Colicroot

Japanese: colicroot
Colicroot

...It is distributed in Honshu (west of Kanto), Shikoku, Kyushu, Korea, mainland China, and Taiwan. The genus Aletris (English name: Colicroot) is distributed in Asia and North America and contains about 30 species. Because it is infraovary, which is rare for the Liliaceae family, it is sometimes classified as an independent subfamily (Alettinae), but the structure of the flower is the same as that of the genus Metanarthecium in the Acanthaceae subfamily. ...

*Some of the terminology that mentions "colicroot" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…本州(関東以西),四国,九州,朝鮮,中国大陸,台湾に分布する。 ソクシンラン属Aletris(英名colicroot)はアジアと北アメリカに分布し,約30種を含む。ユリ科には珍しく子房下位のため,独立の亜科(ソクシンラン亜科)に分類されることもあるが,花の構造はシュロソウ亜科のノギラン属Metanartheciumと一致する。…

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