Name:

Aspidistra longhuiensis G.W.Hu, Zhi Wang & Q.F.Wang, Phytotaxa 510(1): 89 (2021).

Holotype:

 

China. Hunan, Shaoyang prefecture, Longhui county, Xiyang township, Suheyuanshan village, elev. 450 m, 14 March, 2021, Z.Wang, G.W. Hu HGW-001316 (holotype HIB!, isotypes HIB!, HNNU!, IBK!).

Distribution:

China: Hunan.

Phenology:

Flowers in March–April.

Description

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Perennial evergreen herb, 40−75 cm tall. Rhizome creeping, subterete, covered with scales, 8−15 mm in diameter, with internodes 10−15 mm long. Leaf sheaths 3−5, obvious at leaf bud stage. Foliage leaf fascicled on node of rhizome, (1−)3−5 leaves forming a tuft, leaf clusters 6−35 mm apart, boundaries of lamina and petiole indistinguishable; petiole stiffly erect, adaxial sulcate, swollen at base, ca. 5−10 cm long; lamina dark green, midvein and secondary veins conspicuous, adaxially sunken, linear, 30−60 × 1−2 cm, margin sparsely serrulate above middle, apex acuminate, gradually narrowing toward the base. Peduncle arising from the nodes of apical part of rhizome, 1−10 cm long, white to light green, bracts 3−5, whitish green with small purple spots, triangular-ovate, apex obtuse, 2 or 3 at the base of flower. Flower solitary at the top of peduncle; perigone widely campanulate to bowl-shaped, 1.5−2.2 cm long, inside and outside dark purple, 6−8-lobed, lobes triangularovate, purple with yellowish spots, slightly recurved, subequal, 7–11 mm long, 6–9 mm wide at base, obtuse at apex, and with 2 or 3 keels, the submarginal keels running from middle of lobes to the base of perigone tube, perigone tube 8−11 mm deep, dark purple, adaxial surface sunken directly below each lobe. Stamens 6–8 (matching lobe number), inserted at the bottom of perigone tube and directly below lobes, lower than stigma; filament inconspicuous, ca. 1.5 mm long, 2 mm in diameter; anthers reniform. Pistil mushroom shaped, ca. 7 mm high, near the base of lobes, stigma convex, suborbicular, 11−15 mm in diameter, 3 or 4-lobed, lobe subequal, red-purple at the edge, whitish at the middle; upper surface crevice inapparent, fringed, rough; lower surface crevice obvious, pure white; margin undulate, with 6−8 soft strongly reflexed lobes; ovary 3 or 4 locules. Fruit and seeds unknown.

Sourses:

Wang et al. (2021) – Phytotaxa 510 (1): 89–93

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