aSPIDISTRA sPECIES

Aspidistra retusa

Name:

Aspidistra retusa K.Y.Lang & S.Z.Huang – Acta Phytotax. Sin. 19(3): 379 (1981).

Holotype:

 

Guangxi: Yangshuo, IV.1938 leg.; E.H.Shan 854 (Typus, in Herb. Inst. Bot. Austro-Sinensis Acad. Sin; isotypus, in Herb. Inst. Bot. Acad. Sin.); Jinxiu S.Z.Huang 7592.

Distribution:

China: Guangxi.

Phenology:

no data

Description

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Rhizoma subteres,ca. 5 mm diam., dense, nodosum et squamatum, radices paucas edens; vaginae 3 (summa longissima 3 cm longa), purpureo-fuscae, basin folii amplectentes, vetustiores in fibrillas demum dissolutae; folia solitaria 1 cm distantia; lamina oblonga vel oblongo-lanceolata, 20–35 cm longa, 3–6.5 cm lata, apice acuminata, basi cuneata, utrinque subinaequali; petiolo gracili, rigido, supra sulcato, 16–33 cm longo, 1.5–2 mm diam.; pedunculus 2.5–4.5 cm longus, 5–6 bracteatus; bracteis summis 1–2 ovatis flori contiguis, 7 mm longis,ca. 5 mm latis, apice acutis vel obtusis, 2–4-lobatis, purpureo-atomatis, infimis,2 late ovatis, apice 2-lobatis; floribus solitariis; perianthio campanulato, 17–20 mm longo, (5–)6-lobato; lobis subaequalibus triangulari-ovatis, ca. 4 mm longis, basi ca. 3 mm latis, crassiusciilis, recurvis vel paulo recurvis; tubo perianthii 13–15 mm longo, ca. 9–10 mm diam.; staminibus (5–)6, in parte tertio supero tubi affixis, stigma valde superantibus, lobis perianthii oppositis subsessilibus; antheris ovatis 1.8 mm longis latisque, apice obtusis; pistillo ca. 4mm longo, tubo perianthii 2–3-plo breviore; ovario paulo inflato; stylo conspicue articulato; stigmate paulo inflato, ca. 1.5 mm diam., clypeato, margine leviter retuso vel undulato.

Sourses:

K.Y.Lang (1981) – Acta Phytotax. Sin. 19(3): 379–385; Liu et al. (2016) – Phytotaxa 270 (1): 63–68.

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