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Additional specimen examined (
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Wei-Bin Xu,
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. Nguyen &amp; Chun-Rui Lin 13971
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The new species is morphologically similar to
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long, stigma upper surface purplish red, the center obviously convex, with 4 trailing hemispherical-lobed prominently, and 4 inconspicuous radial, white lines with 5 forks at apex.
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: (A) plant in nature; (B) flowering plant; (C, D) flowers; (E) perianth dissected to show stamens; (F) flower bottom view; (G) flower longitudinally dissected; (H) bracts; (I) pistil; (J) stigma bottom view; (K) stigma top view; (L) flower with half of perianth removed showing pistil.
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Herbs perennial, evergreen, rhizomatous.
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creeping, subterete,
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in diameter, nodes dense.
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45, purplish red,
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long, enveloping base of petiole, becoming black-brown when dry.
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solitary, ca.
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apart; petiole stiff upright,
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long, ca.
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in diameter, adaxially sulcate; leaf blade usually ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 914.5 long and
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wide, green, apex acuminate, base nearly rounded or subcordate, abruptly narrow into petiole, inequilateral, margin entire, mid vein strongly prominent on abaxial surface, secondary veins 45 pairs, abaxially prominent.
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decumbent, purplish red,
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long, with 46 bracts, the two bracts at the base of perianth broadly ovate, white with purplish red spots, ca.
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long,
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wide, apex acuate or shortly acuminate.
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solitary.
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urceolate, fleshy, deeply 8 lobed apically; lobes recurved or arcuate, triangular lanceolate,
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long and
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wide at base, outside whitish with purplish red mottled densely, inside pale yellow and sometimes with purplish-red speckles at base, apex long acuminate, each lobe basally with an adaxial, toothlike appendage, appendages white and frequently spotted with purplish-red, ca. 2×
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, apex 23 denticulate, appendages protruding horizontally or obliquely over tube opening similar to an iris diaphragm reducing the opening to
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; tube
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long, widest part
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in diameter, outside white with purplish red spots, inside deep purple to nearly black, with 8 keels from the stamen bases running up to the mouth of perianth tube.
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8, opposite to lobes, inserted at ca.
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from the base of perianth tube, positioned conspicuously lower than stigma; anthers subsessile, subglobose, ca.
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long and wide, pollen yellow.
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long, ovary indistinct, style cylindrical, short,
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long,
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in diameter, stigma disc-shaped, enlarge,
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in diameter, upper surface purplish red, the center obviously convex, and with 4 trailing hemispherical-lobed, each lobe distally descends and extends to margin, apex with 4 inconspicuous radial, white lines with 5 forks, margin sinuate and bent upward, lower surface white, with 16 longitudinal ribs.
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<emphasis id="B902EF2FFFA5FFBAFF240E26FEE2FC05" bold="true" box="[189,351,878,904]" pageId="13" pageNumber="244">Phenology:—</emphasis>
The new species was observed flowering from April to May.
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<emphasis id="B902EF2FFFA5FFBAFF240EDAFED9FC21" bold="true" box="[189,356,914,940]" pageId="13" pageNumber="244">Etymology:—</emphasis>
The specific epithet refers to the
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locality,
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, northern
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.
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<emphasis id="B902EF2FFFA5FFBAFF240EFEFDB6FC5D" bold="true" box="[189,523,950,976]" pageId="13" pageNumber="244">Distribution and ecology:—</emphasis>
At present,
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is known only from Ba Be National Park,
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, northern
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. It grows under evergreen broad-leaved forest on limestone mountains, at elevation range of
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, not common.
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<emphasis id="B902EF2FFFA5FFBAFF24096AFE29FBB1" bold="true" box="[189,404,1058,1084]" pageId="13" pageNumber="244">Similar species:—</emphasis>
The new species is similar to
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<emphasis id="B902EF2FFFA5FFBAFD47096AFC0FFBB1" box="[734,946,1058,1084]" italics="true" pageId="13" pageNumber="244">Aspidistra superba</emphasis>
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in the floral morphology, but differs by its shorter leaf petiole (59 vs.
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) long, leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate (vs. widely lanceolate), smaller leaf blade (914.5 vs.
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) long, stigma upper surface purplish red (vs. red and white), the center obviously convex (vs. concave), with 4 trailing hemispherical-lobed (vs. heart-shaped) prominently, and 4 inconspicuous radial, white lines with 5 forks at apex (vs. 16 prominent rays ending in 16 teeth). A detailed morphological comparison between the two species is provided in
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.
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