aSPIDISTRA sPECIES

Aspidistra austrosinensis

Name:

Aspidistra austrosinensis Y.Wan & C.C.Huang – Guihaia 7(3): 221. (1987).

Holotype:

 

Guangxi: Nanning, cultivated in Guangxi Botanical Garden of Medicinal Plants (plants originally from Guangxi), 9. Oct. 1985, C. C. Huang 12256 (Holotype, GXMG; isotype, GXSP).

Distribution:

China: Guangxi. 

Phenology:

Flowers in October in cultivation.

Description

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Rhizoma repens subteres, 5–8 mm diam,, dense nodosum et squamatum Folia solitaria, circ. 3 cm distantia; lamina oblongo-lanceolata, 40.5–45 cm longa, 5.3–5.6 cm lata, apice acuminata, basi attenuata, margine serrulata; petiolo rigido, 44–56 cm longo, supra sulcato. Pedunculus 1–4 cm longus, 4–5-bracteatus; bracteis ab inferioribus ad superiores sensim ampliatis, summa flori contigua, late ovata, circ. 8 mm longa, 15 mm lata, apice obtusa, alba, purpureo-atornata; floribus solitariis; perianthio campanulato, carnoso, 15–18 mm longo, 6-lobato; lobis subtriangularibus, 8–10 mm longis, basi 6–7 mm latis, apice acutis, leviter recurvis, purpureis; tubo perianthii 7–8 mm longo, 10–12 mm diam., flavido; staminibus 6, in parte tertia inferiore tubi affixis, stipitatis, stipitibus circ. 1 mm longis; antheris ovatis, 3.5–4 mm longis; pistillo circ. 7 mm longo, stamina conspicue superante; ovario paulo inflato; stylo exarticulato; stigmate dilatato, acetabuliforme, circ. 5 mm diam., apice concavo, margine repando, in uno latere valde involuto ad medianum alte elevato.

Sourses:

Wan Y. & Huang C.C. (1987). Guihaia 7(3): 217-224.

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