Name:

Aspidistra wujiangensis W.F.Xu & S.Z.He – Phytotaxa 231(3): 297. (2015).

Holotype:

China. Guizhou province, Yanhe country, under the shrub beside Wujiang valley, 20 September 2007, W. F. Xu et al. 070920 (holotype, GZTM).

Specimens:

China. Guizhou province, Yanhe country, 20 September 2007, W.F. Xu et al. 070921 (GZTM)

Distribution:

China: Guizhou.

Phenology:

Flowers in September–October, fruits in October–November in nature.

Description

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protologue:

Herbs perennial, rhizome creeping, subterete, 5−7 mm thick, covered with scales. Roots elongate. Leaf sheaths 3−4, purple-brown, 3−8 cm long, enclosing the base of leaves, fibrous when withered. Leaves solitary, 1.1−1.7 cm apart, leaf blade narrowly oblanceolate with small yellowish white spots, 23−36 × 3.2−4 cm, apex gradually acuminate, base gradually narrowed into petiole; Petiole 14−26 cm. Penduncle 0.8−1.2 cm, subterete, bracts 4−6, 4.5−5.5 × 5−6 mm. Flower solitary, erect; Perigone campanulate, purple-red, 9.5−12 × 8−8.5 mm, 8-lobed, perigone tube 7−9 mm in length, 8 mm in diameter, lobes yellowish white, 2.5−3 mm long and ca. 2 mm wide at base; Stamens 8, inserted at ca. 3 mm above base of tube, filament extremely short, anther ovoid, 1.7 × 1.2 mm; Pistil 3.5−4 mm in length with joint between style and stigma, ovary scarcely swelled, ca. 2.5 mm in diameter, stigma dishing swelled, purple-red, 6−7 mm in diameter, 4−lobed at margin, lobes concave apex, the center slightly convex with 4 pairs of radiate ridges on the upper surface and a groove appeared in each pair of ridges; Berry pyriform, 1−1.3 cm high and 1.1−1.4 cm in diameter, with small spines on the surface.

Sourses:

Xu et al. (2015) – Phytotaxa 231(3): 297–299.

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