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Aspidistra alternativa
| Accepted name | Aspidistra alternativa D. Fang & L. Y. Yu. Acta Phytotax. Sin. 40(2): 161 (2002). |
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| Distribution | China (Guangxi) |
| Description | Rhizome: creeping, densely fibrous. Leaves: solitary, well spaced on rhizome, to ca. 23 cm; cataphylls undescribed; petiole ca. 5 - 11 cm; lamina 10 - 12 cm long x 3 - 4 cm wide. Peduncle: ± erect, ca. 2 cm long with ca. 5 bracts; flowers solitary. Perianth [Perigone]: widely campanulate, tube 6 mm long x 12 mm diameter, lobes 8, purple, densely verrucose, with two deep longitudinal grooves. Stamens: 8, inserted proximally in perianth tube. Pistil: mushroom-shaped; style a slender column the top developed into a delicate hemispherical dome-like stigma, 5 - 7 mm long x 8 mm in diameter, shallowly 8-lobed at margin; ovary undescribed. Fruit: undescribed. Phenology: undescribed. 2n = ? based on Tillich 2005 and Li Guangzhao 2004. |
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