Name:

Aspidistra hainanensis W.Y.Chun & F.C.How – Fl. Hainan. 4: 533. (1977).

Synonyms:

A. yingjiangensis Peng, A. larutensis deWilde & Vogel

Holotype:

China, Hainan, 19 Mar 1933, F. C. How 70382 (isotypes: P [PE-375020-00034604; PE-1644604-00034605]).

Distribution:

China: Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Yunnan; Laos; Malaysia; Thailand; Vietnam: Lam Dong province.

Phenology:

Flowers in March–April in nature.

Description

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protologue:

Rhizome creeping, ca. 8 mm in diameter, stout. Leaves 2–4-tufted to ca. 80 cm; cataphylls undescribed; petiole 3–10 cm; leaf blade lorate, 50–70 cm long x 1–1.5 cm wide. Peduncle 5–18 mm long with ca. 4 bracts; flowers solitary. Perigone campanulate, purple or tinged with yellow; tube 1–1.2 cm long x 1.3–1.5 cm diameter; lobes 6 (–8), recurved, oblong-ovate, 8–10 mm long x ca. 2 mm wide, 4-keeled adaxially, keels fleshy, smooth, central two extending from base of tube to apex of lobes, other two short or sometimes inconspicuous. Stamens 6(–8), inserted proximally in perianth tube, subsessile, anthers transversely elliptic, ca. 1.5 x 2 mm. Pistil nail-headed, ca. 8 mm long; style basally obconical but apically expanded into a peltate, 3-lobed orbicular stigma 1–1.3 cm in diameter and more or less filling the perianth tube; ovary undescribed. Fruit undescribed.

Sourses:

Tillich & Averyanov (2012) – Gardens’ Bulletin Singapore 64(1): 201–209; Averyanov et al. (2018) – Nordic Journal of Botany: e01833; Li Guangzhao (2004); Liang and Tamura (2000) – Flora of China vol. 24: 240–250.

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