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Aspidistra spinula

Name:

Aspidistra spinula S.Z.He – Acta Phytotax. Sin. 40(4): 377 (2002).

Holotype:

 

China. Gilizhou, SW Guizhou,without precise locality,cultivated plant in Guiyang,introduced from southwestem Guizhou Province,2001.09.16,S.Z. He 01916 (holotype, HGCM).

Distribution:

China: Guangxi.

Phenology:

Flowers in August–October in cultivation.

Description

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Herba perennis. Rhizoma repens,subteres, 6–10 mm diam., dense nodosum el squamatum, radices paucas elongatas edens. Vaginae 2–3,purpureae, 8–13 cm longae, basin folii amplectentes, vetustiores in fibrillas demum dissolutae. Folia solitaria, 5–10 mm inter se dictantia; lamina elliptica, 18–38 cm longa, 6–9 cm lata, apice acuminata, basi cuneata, inaequiiateralia, paulo flavo-albo-punctata; petioli rigidi, 16 –56 cm longi,supra sulcati. Pedunculus 4–9 cm Iongus, 3-bracteatus; bracteae late ovatae, purpureae 0.8–1.2 cm longae, 0.4–0.6 cm latae. Flores solitarii; perianthium campanulatum, purpureum, 1.5–1.7 cm longum, 8-lobatum, lobis triangulari-lanceolatis 6–7 mm longis basi c. 4 mm latis intus projecturis calcariformibus c. 3 mm longis,superficie carinis 3–4 (interdum indistinctis) carnosis ornatis, tubo 1.1–1.3 cm longo 1.4–1.5 cm diam.; stamina 8,basi tubi affixa,filamentiis c. 1 mm longis, antheris late ovalis c. 2 mm longis 1.5 mm latis; pistillum c. 3.5 mm longum, stigmate peltato-dilatato, cruciformi, 0.8–1 cm diam. Bacca subquadrangulato-globosa, 1.2–1.4 cm diam.,extus muricata,irregulariter spinescens.

Sourses:

S.Z.He (2002) – Acta Phytotax. Sin. 40(4): 377–379.

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