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Aspidistra patentiloba

Comparison of stigma surface.

The plant I am growing as A. patentiloba does not closely match the drawings below or the photographs in Li Guangzhao 2004.  In the drawings and photographs the "stigma" is obconical and does not fill and is not appressed to the opening of the perigone tube.  In my plants the "stigma" is disc-like and is closely appressed to the opening of the perianth tube.  The details of the adaxial surface of the stigma also do not match.

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