Name:

Aspidistra connata Tillich – Feddes Repert. 116(5-6): 318. (2005).

Subtaxa:

Aspidistra connata Tillich var. radiata Tillich & Škorničk.

Synonyms:

Aspidistra connata is currently a synonym of Aspidistra subrotata Y.Wan & C.C.Huang

Holotype:

From a plant in cultivation at the Botanical Garden Munich (accession-nr. 96/3119), collected by N. Arnautov (Arnautov 85–722) in Vietnam, Prov. Gialai-Kontum. Tillich 4470 (M), including flowers in the liquid collection at (M).

Specimens:

Paratypes: Bogner s.n. (M!), Tillich 4969 (LE!); Vietnam, Prov. Gia Lai, “north of An Khe”, in cultivation in the Botanical Garden Munich (accession-nr. 97/2358) Bogner 2495 (M!), Tillich 4591 (M!); Living plants (Arnautov 85–722) are in cultivation in the Botanical Garden of the Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg.

Distribution:

Vietnam. Gia Lai, Ninh Thuan province; China: Guangxi.

Phenology:

Flowers in November–December in cultivation.

Description

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protologue:

Rhizome epigeous, ∅ 5–7 mm, cataphylls green to pale brown, their length successively increasing from 1 cm to about 10 cm; Petiole 20–30 cm; Lamina lanceolate, 30 cm long and 5–6 cm wide, uniformly green or sometimes with white spots, base narrow cuneate, midvein tender, secondary veins very fine, upper surface smooth; Flowers subsessile, length and ∅ 20– 30 mm, tube widely cupulate, ∅ 10 mm and 4–5 mm high, lobes 8 (–10), lineate, connate at their tips and forming a cage around the pistil, outsides pale violet with dark purple spots, insides purple; Stamens 8, near the base of tube, filaments 0.5 mm, anthers ovoid, 2.5 mm long; Pistil mushroom-shaped, ovar indistinct, style 2–4 mm long, stigma dome-shaped, ∅ 12–17 mm, surface smooth, marmorate with dark and pale purple.

Sourses:

Tillich H.J. (2005) – Feddes Repertorium 116: 313–338; Xu et al. (2010) –Guihaia 30(5): 613–615; Leong-Škorničková et al. (2014) – Gardens’ Bulletin Singapore 66(1): 27–37.

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