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Aspidistra fimbriata
| Accepted name | Aspidistra fimbriata F. T. Wang & K. Y. Lang. Acta Phytotax. Sin., 16(1): 76, fig. 1. (1978). |
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| Distribution | China (Fujian, Guangdong, Hainan) |
| Description | Rhizome: creeping, 4 - 6 mm in diameter. Leaves: solitary to ca. 80 cm; cataphylls undescribed; petiole 25 - 35 cm, stiff; lamina oblong-lanceolate, 30 - 45 cm long x 3.5 - 6 cm wide. Scape: 3 - 10 mm long with 4 or 5 bracts; flowers solitary. Perianth [Perigone]: campanulate, [colour purple?]; tube 7 - 9 mm long x 1 - 1.5 cm diameter; lobes 8 - 10, slightly recurved, purple speckled abaxially, ovate-deltoid, 6 - 8 mm long x 3.5 - 5 mm wide, with 4 fleshy, lobes fimbriate adaxially. Stamens: 8 - 10, inserted proximally in perianth tube, subsessile; anthers broadly ovate, ca. 1.8 mm. Pistil: nail-headed; style basally columnar (ca. 4 mm long) gradually widening to a 4-lobed peltate stigma, ca. 7 mm in diameter and ca. 5 mm thick at the centre, the adaxial surface (stigmatic surface) purple, and the lobes emarginate resulting in 8 marginal lobes; ovary undescribed. Fruit: undescribed. Phenology: flowers November - December. 2n = 38 Based on FoC & K-Y Lang. |
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