Name:

Aspidistra cyathiflora Y.Wan & C.C.Huang – Bull. Bot. Res., Harbin 9(2): 100. (1989).

Subtaxa:

Aspidistra cyathiflora Y. Wan & C.C. Huang var. bifolia Aver., Tillich & K.S. Nguyen

Holotype:

Guangxi, Nanning, euhivated in Guangxi Botanical Garden of Medicinal Plants (ntroduced from Guangxi, without precise locality), 10. Dec. 1985, Y. Wan et C. C. Huang 85121 (Holotype, GXSP).

Specimens:

Specimens of Aspidistra cyathiflora var. bifolia:

Vietnam, Son La province, Moc Chau district, Chieng Son communne, about 1 km to northeast from Chieng Son village, around point 20°46′02.0″N, 104°37′03.1″E, remnants of primary broad-leaved evergreen forest on tops of hills composed with karstic highly eroded yellow-white limestone at elevation 1150–1250 m a.s.l., terrestrial herb in shady rocky place, locally very common, 27 Sep 2016, L. Averyanov, N. T. Hiep, N. S. Khang, C. Q. Ngan, T. V. Maisak, N. T. Son, CPC 8057 (holotype: LE, isotypes: LE)

Distribution:

China: Guangxi; Vietnam: Son La province.

Phenology:

no data

Description

from 

protologue:

Rhizoma subteres, 6–11 mm diam, dense nodosum squamatumque. Folia 2 (–3) caespitosa vel solitaria，7–20 mm distantia, lamina lineari, 26–46 cm longa， 1,8–3.5 cm lata， apice acuminata, basi attenuata, margine serrulata; petiolo 2–l4 cm longo. Pedunculus 8–20 mm longus, 3–5-bracteatus; bracteis late ovatis, summis 1–2 flori contiguis，5一7mm longis, 9–l0 mm latis, trilobatis, albis; floribus solitariis; perianthio carnoso subcyathiformi, 12–14 mm longo, 13–I5 mm diam., extus flavo-virenti, purpureopunctato, 6 (–7)-lobato; lobis triangularibus, 5–7 mm longis, basi 5–6 mm latis, apice obtusis, rectis, intus flavidis laevibus; tubo perianthii circ. 7 mm longo, intus praeter basin albam purpureo; staminibus 6 (–7), basi tubi affixis; filamentis conspicuis, 1 mm longis; antheris late ovatis, 2–3 mm longis latisque; pistillo circ. 5 mm longo; ovario paulo inflato; stylo ex articulato; stigmate peltate dilatato, rotundo, 5–6 mm diam., stamina conspicue superante, facie supera convexo, purpureo interdum centro flavo, sulcis 3 albis ornato, margine 3(–4)-lobato lobis margine repando-trilobis, ea infera albo.

Sourses:

Y.Wan & Xiao H.Lu (1989) – Bull. Bot. Res., 9(2): 97; Nguyen et al. (2017) – Nordic Journal of Botany 35: 482–487.

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