Name:

Aspidistra sichuanensis K.Y.Lang & Z.Y.Zhu – Acta Bot. Yunnan. 6(4): 387. (1984).

Holotype:

China: Sichuan: Leshan, ait. 600 m, 8.2.1980, Z.Y. Zhu 1448 (Type deposited in Sichuan School of Chinese Materia Medica).

Specimens:

China: Sichuan: Muchuan, alt. 800 m, 24.1. 1980, Z.Y. Zhu 1054; same locality Z.Y. Zhu 917; Emei Shan, alt. 1100 m，24.I.1980，Z.Y. Zhu 1408; same locality ait. 550 m，Z.Y. Zhu 1453, 1454.

Distribution:

China: Sichuan.

Phenology:

no data.

Description

from 

protologue:

Rhizoma teres, 6–12 mm diam., nodosum et squamatum. Folia solitaria, 1–3,5 cm distantia; lamina lanceolata vel elliptico-lanceolata, 20–35 cm longa, 4–8 cm lata, apice acuminata, basi cuneata, margine sparse serrulata, utrinque viridi, interdum luteo-albo-punctata; petiolo crassiore rigido, 10–35(40) cm longo, 3–4 mm diam. Pedunculus 0.5–5 cm longus, 4–6-bracteaus, bracteis 2 basi floris sitis late ovatis purpureis, 6–9 mm longis, 8 mm latis; perianthio campanulato,  10–15 mm longo, 9–15 mm diam., extus purpureo intus purpureo-fusco, superne (6–) 8-lobato, lobis triangulari-lanceolatis purpureis patentibus vel recurvis, 3–6 mm longis, 2–3 mm latis, apice obtusis, intus carinis 4 longitudinalibus dense mamillatis interioribus 2 longio-ribus exterioribus 2 crassioribus brevioribus ornatis； tubo perianthii 7–9 mm longo; staminibus (6–) 8–9 in parte quarto infero tubi affixis, lobis perianthii oppositis, stipitibus brevibus; antheris ovatis ca. 1.5 mm longis； pistillo ca. 4 mm longo, stylo inarticulato; stigmate peltate inflato rotundo, 8–12 mm diam., stamina conspicue superante, in medio convexo, facie supera costis (3–)4-jugis radiatini dispositis purpureis ornato, inter costas quaeque paris profunde sulcatis, margine (3–)4-lobato, lobis apice emarginatis; ovario vix inflato (3–)-loculari in quoque loculo 2-ovulato. Bacca subglobosa vel ovato-elliptica, 1–3 cm longa, 8–25 mm diam., extus muricata.

Sourses:

K.Y.Lang & Z.Y.Zhu (1984) – Acta Bot. Yunnan. 6(4): 385–388.

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