Name:

Aspidistra muricata F.C.How – Acta Phytotax. Sin. 19(3): 383 (1981).

Holotype:

Guangxi： Chenpien (nunc Napo), 18.X.1935 leg., S.P.Ko 55937 (Typus, in Herb. Inst. Bot. Austro-Sinersis Acad. Sin.； isotypus, in Herb. Inst. Bot. Acad. Sin.).

Distribution:

China: Guangxi.

Phenology:

no data

Description

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protologue:

Rhizoma repens, teres, ca. 5 mm diam., dense nodosum et squamatum, radices elongatas edens； vaginae fuscatae, basin folii amplectentes, vetustiores in fibrillas demum dissolutae； folia 2–3 caespitosa, lamina lineari 30–50 cm longa, 1–1.5 cm lata, apice acuminata, basi attenuata, margine supra medium serrulata; petiolo 5–10 cm longo, sulcato； pedunculus longus, 11–13 mm longus, assurgens 4–5-bracteatus； bracteis summis 2 ovatis flori contiguis, 12 mm longis, 7 mm latis, apice bilobatis, lobis subovatis, plurinervibus, inferioribus 2–3 ovatis, 11–13 mm longis, 7–9 mm latis，apice acuminatis vel acutis, plurinervibus; floribus singularibus; perianthio campanulato, 1.5 cm longo, 6.5 mm diam., viridulo, 6-lobato； lobis anguste oblongis, 5 mm longis, basi ca. 3 mm latis, apice obtusis, recurvis； staminibus 6, subsessilibus, medio tubi affixis, pistillo subaequilongis; antheris oblongis 3 mm longis, 1.5 mm latis, apice acutis； pistillo 6 mm longo； ovario vix inflato cum stylo 5 mm longo； stylo conspicue articulato； stigmate inflato leviter rotundo, 4 mm diam.; fructu rotundo-globoso, ca. 1 cm diam., extus muricato pluri-verrucoso.

Sourses:

K.Y.Lang (1981) – Acta Phytotax. Sin. 19(3): 379–385.

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