Name:

Aspidistra insularis Tillich – Feddes Repert. 117(1-2): 145. (2006).

Holotype:

Japan, Kagoshima Prefecture, Ohsumi Islands, Kuroshima Island, Mt. Yaguradake, E 159°55′50″–56′10″ N 30°49′50″, 450 m; Shinji Fujii 9361, Febr. 27/2003 (M).

Specimens:

Isotype: Osaka Museum of Natural History, Herbarium (OSA).

Distribution:

Japan: Kuroshima Island.

Phenology:

Flowers in February–April in nature.

Description

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protologue:

Rhizome creeping, ∅ ca. 5 mm, cataphylls up to 15 cm long, splitting into fibres by withering; Petiole ca. 30 cm, green, stiff; Lamina lanceolate, 40–50 × 7–8 cm, green, gradually tapering to petiole; Peduncle up to 5 mm long or flowers nearly sessile; Perigone cup-shaped, tube ∅ 10–12 mm, pale, lobes 8, purple, in two circles, lobes 5 × 3 mm, with two prominent, fleshy keels fusing distally at each lobe and basally with a keel of an adjacent lobe, from the basal fusion point a keel runs downward to middle of tube, lobes of outer circle with hyalin marginal wings; Stamens 8, at middle height of tube, filaments ca. 0.5 mm, anthers reniform, 2 × 1 mm; Pistil tableshaped, 7 mm high, ovar incospicuous, style cylindric, ca. 3 mm long, stigma square, ∅ 9 mm, with 4 closely adnate triangular lobes, their radial margins upfolded and forming a somewhat prominent diagonal cross figure, each lobe distally with an upfolded lip (lobulum inflexum).

Sourses:

Tillich (2006) – Feddes Repert. 117(1-2): 139–145.

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