Name:

Aspidistra revoluta Hao Zhou, S.R.Yi & Q.Gao – Phytotaxa 257(3): 281. (2016).

Holotype:

China: Chongqing Municipality: Nanchuan District, Jinfoshan Mt., from the plant cultivated at the Institute of Medicine Plantation of Chongqing, 25 March 2015, Hao Zhou, Si-Rong Yi & Qi Gao QG784 (Holotype IMC).

Specimens:

Paratypes: China: Chongqing Municipality: Nanchuan District, Jinfoshan Mt., from the plant cultivated in the Institute of Medicine Plantation of Chongqing, 25 March 2015, Hao Zhou, Si-Rong Yi & Qi Gao QG785 (IMC).

Distribution:

China: Chongqing.

Phenology:

Flowers in March–April 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:

Zhou et al. (2016) – Phytotaxa 257(3): 280–286.

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