aSPIDISTRA sPECIES

Aspidistra chishuiensis

Name:

Aspidistra chishuiensis S.Z.He & W.F.Xu – Ann. Bot. Fenn. 47(2): 118. (2010).

Holotype:

 

China. Guizhou province, Chishui Xian, Asp- hole National Natural Reserve, under the shrubbery in the valley, 27.VII.2003, SZ. He & W.F. Xu 0307045 (HGCM).

Specimens: 

China. Guizhou province, Xishui Xian, Changqiangou National Natural Reserve, 5.VIII.2008, SZ. He et al. 080805 (HGCM).

Distribution:

China: Guizhou.

Phenology:

Flowers in July-August in nature.

Description

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Perennial herb. Rhizome creeping, subterete, 4–6 mm in diam., the rooting at nodes, covered with scales. Sheathing leaves 3–5, purplish-red, 3–15 cm long, fibrous when withered. Leaves solitary, 1-3 cm apart; petioles 28–50 cm, rigid and sulcate; blades elliptic-lanceolate, 22–38 cm long, 6–7.5 cm wide, green with yellowish-white spots, apex acuminate, margin entire, base cuneate, tapering to petioles. Flower solitary, erect, peduncle 2–3 cm. Bracts 3–4, broadly ovate, 6–7 mm long, 5-6 mm wide, purple. Perianth campanulate, 1.5–1.7 cm long, 8–9 cm across, purple, fleshy; tube 1.3–1.5 cm long, ca. 8–9 mm in diam.; lobes 6, ca. 3.5 mm long, ca. 3 mm wide. Stamens 6, adnate to middle of tube; anthers oblong, ca. 3.2 mm long, ca. 1.8 mm wide. Pistil obconical, ca. 1 cm long with 6 longitudinal ridges gradually broadening from base to top; stigma ca. 8 mm in diam., convex centrally, 3-lobed at margin, lobes deeply bifoliate. Ovary 3-loculed; ovules 2 per locule. Berry ovoid, 1.2–1.4 cm in diam., nearly smooth.

Sourses:

S.Z.He & W.F.Xu (2010) – Ann. Bot. Fenn. 47(2): 118.

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