Name: | Aspidistra acetabuliformis Y.Wan & C.C.Huang – Acta Phytotax. Sin. 25(5): 396 (1987). |
Holotype: | 28.Oct. 1985, C.C.Huang 8839 in Herbarium of Guangxi Botanical Garden of Medicinal Plants. |
Distribution: | China: Guangxi. |
Phenology: | Flowers in October in greenhouse. |
Description from protologue:
| Rhizoma repens subteres, 4—7 mm diam., dense nodosum et squamatum. Folia solitaria, c. 2 cm distantia; lamina oblongo-lanceolata vel anguste oblonga, 23—26 cm longa, 4—5.2 cm lata, apice acuminata, basi attenuata, utrinque flavoalbo-punctata; petiolo 9—11 cm longo. Pedunculus 1—2.7 cm longus, 4-bracteatus; bractea summa flori contigua, late ovata, c. 6 mm longa, 8 mm lata, apice obtusa; floribus solitariis; perianthio campanulato carnoso, c. 14 mm longo, 8-lobato; lobis triangularibus, c. 5mm longis, basi 5 mm lalis, apice obtusis, recurvis, purpureis, intus infra medium carinis 2—3 longitudinalibus mamillatis ornatis; tubo perianthii c. 10 mm longo, 12—14 mm diam., extus albo, intus purpureo; staminibus 8, in parte tertia inferiore tubi affixis; filamentis c. 1.5 mm longis; antheris oblongis, c. 2.6 mm longis; pistillo c. 4 mm longo; ovario haud inflato cum stylo c. 1 mm longo; stigmate dilatato acetabuliformi, c. 7 mm diam., stamina leviter superante, facie supera concavo, medio gibbis parvis 3—4 ornato, margine 8—lobato, lobis ascendentibus in utroque latere involutis. |
Sourses: | Wan Y. (1987). Acta Phytotax. Sin. 25(5): 396–400. |
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