aSPIDISTRA sPECIES

Aspidistra triloba

Name:

Aspidistra triloba F.T.Wang & K.Y.Lang – Acta Phytotax. Sin. 19(3): 380 (1981).

Holotype:

Hunan: Qiyang alt. 330 m, 23.IY.1942 leg., Y. Tsiang and S.H.Chun 880 (Typus, in Herb. Inst. Bot. Austro-Sinersis Acad. Sin.).

Distribution:

China: Hunan.

Phenology:

no data

Description

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Rhizoma subteres, ca. 4 mm diam., dense nodosum et squamatum, radices elongatas edens; vaginae basin folii ampleetentes, vetustiores in fibrillas demum dissolutae;folia solitaria, ca. 6 mm distantia; lamina oblongo-lanceolata vel longe elliptica, 11.5–23 cm longa, 3–5 cm lata, apice acuminata, basi cuneata, utrinque inaequali, paulo fulvido-albo-punctata; petiolo rigido, supra suleato,7–9 cm longo, 1–2 mm diam.; pedunculus 1.5–2.5 cm longus, 2–4-bracteatus; bracteis suminis 1–2 ovatis, flori contiguis, 7 mm longis, 7 mm latis, apice paulo concavis, infimis 1–2 ovatis, 7–9 mm longis, 5–7 mm latis, apice obtusis; floribus singulariis; perianthio campanulato ca. 17 mm longo, fulvido 6-vel 7-lobato; lobis subaequalibus, anguste ovato-lancelatis, crassiusculis, ca. 4.5 mm longis, basi 3 mm latis, apice obtusis recurvis vel paulo recurvis; tubo perianthii 13 mm longo, ca. 10 mm diam.; staminibus 6 vel 7, medio tubi affixis,stigma valde superantibus,lobis perianthii oppositis,stipitatis; stipitibus 1–1.5 mm longis; antheris ovato-ellipticis, 1 mm longis, 1.5 mm latis, utrinque obtusis, versatilibus; pistillo 3 mm longo, tubo perianthii ca. 4-plo breviore; ovario paulo inflato, ca. 1.5 mm diam.; stylo conspicue articulato; stigmate paulo inflato sub triangulare 1.7 mm diam., valde conspicue tripartito; lobis subsemicireularibus.

Sourses:

K.Y.Lang (1981) – Acta Phytotax. Sin. 19(3): 379–385.

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