aSPIDISTRA sPECIES

Aspidistra urceolata

Name:

Aspidistra urceolata F.T.Wang & K.Y.Lang – Acta Phytotax. Sin. 19(3): 381 (1981).

Holotype:

Guizhou: Sine loc., 1930, 1128 (Typus, in Herb. Inst. Bot. Austro-Sinersis Acad. Sin.).

Distribution:

China: Guizhou.

Phenology:

no data

Description

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Rhizoma repens subteres 6 mm diam., dense nodosum et squamatum, radices paucas edens; vaginae 3 (summa ad 7 cm longa), fusco-purpureae, basin folii amplectentes, vetustiores in fibrellas demum dissolutae; folia 2–3 caespitosa; lamina oblonga et oblongo-lanceolata, 20–25 cm longa, 3–4 сm lata, apice acuminata, basi cuneata, margine serrulata, in sicco fusco-atrata; petiolo gracili rigido, 8–16 cm longo, supra sulcato; pedunculus longus, gracilis, 3 cm longus, 3-braeteatus; bracteis superioribus 2 late ovatis, flori contiguis, 5.5 mm longis, 4.5 mm latis, apice obtusis purpureo-atomatis, infimis 1 late ovatis, 5 mm longis, 4 mm latis, apice acutis, purpure-atomatis; floribus soltitariis; perianthio urceolato, 6 mm longo, 5 mm diam., purpureo-atomato, apice 6-lobato; lobis triangularibus, aequalibus, erassis, 1 mm longis, basi 1 mm latis, acutis, paulo inflexis; tubo perianthii 5 mm longo; staminibus 6, basi tubi adnatis, subses-silibus, lobis perianthii oppositis; autheris oblongis 1 mm longis, 0.8 mm latis, apice obtusis; pistillo ca. 2 mm longo, tubo perianthii 2.5-plo breviore; ovario basi inflato, stylo brevi crasso; stigmate paulo inflato subconico, apice obtuso 1.5 mm diam., medio faciei superae conspicue convexo, margine 3-lobato, lobis apice cavis, stamina conspicue superante.

Sourses:

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

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