Aspidistra cruciformis

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Aspidistra cruciformis

Accepted name Aspidistra cruciformis Y. Wan & X. H. Lu. Guihaia, 7(3): 217, fig. 1. (1987).

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Distribution China (NW Guangxi)

Description Rhizome: creeping, subterete, diameter 6 - 12 mm.
Leaves: solitary, to ca. 85 cm; cataphylls undescribed, petiole 30 - 50 cm; lamina green with yellowish white spots, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 25 - 35 cm long x 6 - 9 cm wide.

Scape: 0.6 - 1.5 cm long with 2 or 3 bracts; flowers solitary.

Perianth [Perigone]: subcampanulate, dark purple; tube 1.4 - 1.6 cm long x 1.1 - 1.4 cm diameter, papillose inside; lobes 8, slightly recurved, oblong to deltoid, 5 - 6.5 mm long x 4 - 5 mm wide, adaxially papillose.

Stamens: 8, inserted proximally in perianth tube; filaments ca. 1.5 mm; anthers ovate, ca. 2 mm.

Pistil: table-shaped; style basally a slender column (diameter ca. 5 mm) developed at the top into a thin, flat, peltate stigma, 1.2 - 1.4 cm in diameter, more or less filling the tube, 4-lobed or cross-shaped when viewed from above, the lobes emarginate, adaxially with a central boss (the stigmatic surface?) from which radiate 4 broad lines; ovary undescribed.

Fruit: berry subglobose, ca. 7 mm in diameter, scabrous.

Phenology: flowers September.

2n = 38
Based on FoC, and Li Guangzhao 2004.

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Accepted name	Aspidistra cruciformis Y. Wan & X. H. Lu. Guihaia, 7(3): 217, fig. 1. (1987).
Synonyms
Distribution	China (NW Guangxi)
Description	Rhizome: creeping, subterete, diameter 6 - 12 mm. Leaves: solitary, to ca. 85 cm; cataphylls undescribed, petiole 30 - 50 cm; lamina green with yellowish white spots, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 25 - 35 cm long x 6 - 9 cm wide. Scape: 0.6 - 1.5 cm long with 2 or 3 bracts; flowers solitary. Perianth [Perigone]: subcampanulate, dark purple; tube 1.4 - 1.6 cm long x 1.1 - 1.4 cm diameter, papillose inside; lobes 8, slightly recurved, oblong to deltoid, 5 - 6.5 mm long x 4 - 5 mm wide, adaxially papillose. Stamens: 8, inserted proximally in perianth tube; filaments ca. 1.5 mm; anthers ovate, ca. 2 mm. Pistil: table-shaped; style basally a slender column (diameter ca. 5 mm) developed at the top into a thin, flat, peltate stigma, 1.2 - 1.4 cm in diameter, more or less filling the tube, 4-lobed or cross-shaped when viewed from above, the lobes emarginate, adaxially with a central boss (the stigmatic surface?) from which radiate 4 broad lines; ovary undescribed. Fruit: berry subglobose, ca. 7 mm in diameter, scabrous. Phenology: flowers September. 2n = 38 Based on FoC, and Li Guangzhao 2004.
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