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Aspidistra caespitosa
| Accepted name | Aspidistra caespitosa C. P'ei. Contrib. Biol. Lab. Sc. Soc. China, Bot. Ser., 12. 101, fig. 4. (1939). |
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| Distribution | China (Sichuan) |
| Description | Rhizome: creeping, diameter ca. 6 mm. Leaves: 3-tufted, ca. 100 cm; cataphylls undescribed; petiole ca. 10 - 18 cm; lamina lorate, 40 - 80 cm long x 1 - 2.5 cm wide. Peduncle: ± horizontal, sometimes geniculate, 2 - 11 cm long with 4 or 5 bracts; flowers solitary. Perianth [Perigone]: urceolate, purple or tinged with purple; tube 1.6 - 2 cm long x 1 - 1.2 cm diameter [see notes]; lobes 6, sub-erect, ovate-lanceolate, ca. 10 mm long x 4 mm wide. Stamens: 6, inserted near base of tube, subsessile. Pistil: mushroom-shaped; style basally slender the top developed into a 3-lobed dome-like stigma, 1 - 1.2 cm in diameter; ovary undescribed. Fruit: berry purple, ovoid, ca. 6 mm in diameter, scabrous. Phenology: flowers March - April, fruits June - July. 2n = 38 Based on FoC and Li Guangzhao 2004. |
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| Comments | The Flora of China description gives the tube diameter equalling the stigma diameter, which is not true.
The drawings below show the tube to be 1.5 - 2 cm in diameter and the stigma ca. 1 cm in diameter.
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