Name:

Aspidistra latistyla F.Y.Mo, C.R.Lin & Yan Liu, Phytotaxa 512(1): 73 (2021).

Holotype:

 

China. Guangdong: Shenzhen, Fairy Lake Botanical Garden, Shade Garden, hillside, evergreen broad-leaved forests, 22°34’25.39’’ N, 114°10’20.47’’ E, elev. 80 m, cultivated, 6 March 2019, Fu-yan Mo & Chun-rui Lin, XH 2019-001 (holotype SZG!, isotype IBK!).

Distribution:

China: Guangdong.

Phenology:

Flowering in cultivation in February–April, fruiting in April–May.

Description

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Herbs perennial, evergreen, rhizomatous. Rhizome creeping, subterete, 10–15 mm in diameter, covered with scales, nodes dense. Roots numerous. Vaginal leaves 5–6, purple-red, 2–18 cm long, enveloping base of petiole, becoming black-brown when dry. Leaves solitary, 2–3.5 cm apart; petiole stiff upright, 40–58 cm long, 2–3 mm thick, adaxially sulcate; leaf blade dark green with yellowish-green spots, lanceolate to obovate-lanceolate, 30–42 cm long, 8–12 cm wide, with strong, prominent midvein and 5–8 secondary veins at both sides of the midvein, base cuneate, gradually tapered to petiole, inequilateral, apex long acuminate, margin entire. Peduncle decumbent, green to pale purple or purple-red spotted, 8–30 mm long, bracts 5–6, gradually wider from base to the top of peduncle, broadly ovate, concave, rather fleshy, densely with dark purplish red spotted, 8–10 mm long, 14–16 mm wide, apex obtuse. Flower solitary, at the top of peduncle, perianth cylindrical campanulate, slightly 8-lobed apically, fleshy, purple-red mottled to purple-red outside, 20–24 mm long, tube 12–14 mm long, 9–11 mm in diameter, inside yellowish-white, distally sparsely purplish red mottled, lobes suberect, subequal, triangular-lanceolate, 8–10 mm long, 2–3 mm wide at base, inside yellowish white, apex gradually acuminate and usually turns inward, each lobe basally with an adaxial, toothlike appendage, 2–2.5 mm long and 2–3 mm wide, appendages protruding horizontally over perianth tube and reducing the opening to 5–6 mm in diameter. Stamens 8, opposite to lobes, subsessile, inserted in the upper-middle of perianth tube, anthers oblong, ca. 4 mm long and 2 mm wide, distally reaching or just above level of stigma, pollen sacs introrse, dehiscing by a slit, pollen yellow. Pistil 9–11 mm long, ovary inconspicuous, style short, ca. 1 mm long and 2 mm in diameter, stigma enlarged, cylindrical, 8–10 mm long, 7–9 mm in diameter, yellowish white and distally sparsely purplish red mottled, upper surface slightly concave, white and often with irregular purplish red speckled markings in center, its margin with longitudinally 16-ribs which alternated with different sizes each other. Fruit subglobose, dark purple at maturity, 10–15 mm in diameter, tuberculate, seeds 3–5, subglobose.

Sourses:

Mo et al. (2021) – Phytotaxa 512 (1): 73–78.

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