Name:

Aspidistra pingtangensis S.Z.He, W.F.Xu & Q.W.Sun – Novon 21(2): 187. (2011).

Holotype:

China: Guizhou, Pingtang Co., under shrubbery in river valley, 2 Oct. 2007, S.Z. He, W.F. Xu, Q.W. Sun & Y.Y. Wang 071002 (holotype, GZTM; isotype, MO).

Specimens:

Paratypes: China. Guizhou, Guiding Co., Pingfa, 18 Oct. 2008, S.Z. He & W.F. Xu 081018 (Guiyang Coll. Trad. Chin. Med.).

Distribution:

China: Guizhou.

Phenology:

Flowers in October in nature.

Description

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protologue:

Perennial herb; rhizome creeping, subterete, 6–8 mm diam., rooting at nodes, covered with scales. Leaf sheaths 2 or 3, 3–11 cm, fibrous when withered; leaves solitary, 1.5–3 cm apart, petioles 26–28 cm, rigid and grooved, blades elliptic-lanceolate, 25–35 3 6–8 cm, green with yellowish white spots, apex acuminate, tapering to the petioles, with indistinctly small serratures at upper margin. Peduncles 1.2–3.5 cm; bracts 3 or 4, broadly ovate, 5–6 3 5–6 cm wide, purplish red; flowers solitary, erect. Perianth urceolate, 0.9–1 3 0.9–1 cm, milk-white, fleshy, tube 0.8–0.9 cm, 0.9–1.1 cm diam., with 5 or 6 prominent and blunt keels externally visible in the lower half, 5 or 6 purplered markings internally, from top to bottom, perianth lobes 5 or 6, ca. 1.531 mm, purple-red; stamens 5 or 6, inserted at top 1/3 of the perianth tube; filaments ca. 1.2 mm, anthers suboblong, ca. 1.631 mm; stigma ca. 4 mm diam., convex centrally, the stigma peltate, orbicular, enlarged, split into a triangular concavity, with 3 radially slender keels, the stigmatic lobes 3, concave at apex but slightly convex in the middle. Fruit an obovate berry, 1.2–1.6 cm diam., the surface roughened, with verruciform projections.

Sourses:

He et al. (2011) – Novon 21(2): 187–189.

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