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Aspidistra austrosinensis
| Accepted name | Aspidistra austrosinensis Y. Wan & C .C. Huang. Guihaia, 7(3): 221 (1987). |
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| Distribution | China (Guangxi) |
| Description | Rhizome: subterete, diameter 5 - 8 mm. Leaves: solitary, up to 100 cm long, well spaced on rhizome; cataphylls undescribed; petiole 45 - 55 cm, stiff; lamina oblong-lanceolate, 40 - 45 cm long x ca. 5.5 cm wide, margin denticulate. Peduncle: 1 - 4 cm long, white, speckled with purple, with 4 or 5 bracts; flowers solitary. Perianth [Perigone]: campanulate; tube pale yellow, 1 - 1.2 cm long x 7 - 8 mm diameter; lobes 6, slightly recurved, purple, subdeltoid, 8 - 10 mm long x 6 - 7 mm wide. Stamens: 6, inserted proximally in perianth tube; filaments ca. 1mm; anthers ovate, 3.5 - 4 mm. Pistil: goblet-shaped; style short obconoid to stigma level, stigma just exceeding anthers, ca. 5 mm diameter, undulate at margin, infolded on one side into a crest making the adaxial surface bilaterally symmetrical [unique in Aspidistra where radial symmetry is the norm]; ovary conoid. Fruit: undescribed Phenology: flowers October. 2n = ? Based on FoC and Li Guangzhao 2004. |
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