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(Garden number: 20190601). Type specimen prepared from a living cultivated plant in
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!). The photographic plates in
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—Herb terrestrial, perennial, completely glabrous.
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shortly many branched, with numerous brownish roots. Roots
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flattened and obscurely ridged,
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narrowly triangular, acuminate, green, scarious at margins; bracts on main axis
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wide; flower-subtending bract similar to bracts subtending cymes, but much smaller.
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light violet to white, drooping, widely opening,
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in diam., fragrant.
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terete, arising from bracteal axils, violet,
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in diam., as long as stalky part of floral base, straight or curved distally, jointed to floral base forming a distinct articulation.
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6, in 2 whorls, subsimilar, fleshy, oblong, recurved, rounded at apex,
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wide, outer segments slightly longer than the inner ones, externally pale violet, internally whitish.
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6, located at base of each perianth segment, separate;
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6, light green, shortly stalked, introrse, narrowly conical,
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wide, apically acute;
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shortly conoid, fleshy,
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long and wide, white.
<emphasis id="B956362FFF8673261B82FA951D2CFAF6" bold="true" box="[997,1073,1336,1362]" pageId="1" pageNumber="208">Ovary</emphasis>
inferior, 3-locular, almost flat or slightly convex at apex, 23 ovules on basal placenta in each locule.
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purely white,
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long,
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in diam. at base, exceeding anthers, narrowing distally, distinctly curved near the middle, 3-sulcate;
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indistinctly minutely 3-lobed.
<emphasis id="B956362FFF8673261931FA0918E8FA1A" bold="true" box="[342,501,1444,1470]" pageId="1" pageNumber="208">Mature seeds</emphasis>
suborbicular,
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long,
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in diam., glossy bluish-green.
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:—
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.
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city,
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,
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,
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, primary evergreen broad-leaved forest near the top of a limestone mountain, alt.
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, rare,
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,
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451224191102026LY (
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the same locality,
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451224221121001
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<emphasis id="B956362FFF86732618DAF9F51879F9D6" bold="true" box="[189,356,1624,1650]" pageId="1" pageNumber="208">Etymology:—</emphasis>
The specific epithet is derived from the thickly leathery leaf blade of the species. Chinese name is proposed here as “üfiffiĸạ”.
</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="C338B9B6FF86732618DAF90D1B99F8EE" pageId="1" pageNumber="208" type="biology_ecology">
<paragraph id="8B9DEA3DFF86732618DAF90D1B99F8EE" blockId="1.[136,1452,760,1975]" pageId="1" pageNumber="208">
<emphasis id="B956362FFF86732618DAF90D1BF9F91E" bold="true" box="[189,740,1696,1722]" pageId="1" pageNumber="208">Ecology, phenology and conservation status:—</emphasis>
This new species grows on limestone slopes along the Hongshui River (
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), under primary evergreen broad-leaved forest at elevations
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a.s.l., in shady places, rare. Flowering in cultivation in MayJune. Since our current knowledge on the distribution is very limited, the conservation status of
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is assessed here as Data Deficient (DD), following the guidelines in the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria ver. 14 (IUCN 2019).
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<emphasis id="B956362FFF86732618DAF8F91868F8CA" bold="true" box="[189,373,1876,1902]" pageId="1" pageNumber="208">Distribution:—</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B956362FFF8673261912F8F91BB9F8CA" box="[373,676,1876,1902]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="208">Ophiopogon sclerophyllus</emphasis>
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is known only from the
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locality. Although we have been conducting fieldwork in its surrounding areas for more than 3 years, no other population had been found in similar habitats. Presumably it is a local endemic of limestone areas in
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,
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.
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<emphasis id="B956362FFF85732518EFF98119E0F9E6" bold="true" box="[136,253,1580,1602]" pageId="2" pageNumber="209">FIGURE 1.</emphasis>
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: AB. Habitat; C. Plants bearing fruits; D. Roots with tubercles; EF. Leaf blades, adaxial and abaxially surfaces.
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<emphasis id="B956362FFF84732418EFF9BA181FF988" bold="true" box="[136,258,1559,1581]" pageId="3" pageNumber="210">FIGURE 2.</emphasis>
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Flowering plant;
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Root with fusiform tubercle;
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Inflorescence;
<emphasis id="B956362FFF8473241D23F9BA1C41F988" bold="true" box="[1348,1372,1559,1580]" pageId="3" pageNumber="210">D.</emphasis>
Part of inflorescence with flower buds;
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Fully open flower, top view;
<emphasis id="B956362FFF8473241B65F9961A09F9F4" bold="true" box="[770,788,1595,1616]" pageId="3" pageNumber="210">F.</emphasis>
Fully open flower, side view;
<emphasis id="B956362FFF8473241C23F9961D40F9F5" bold="true" box="[1092,1117,1595,1617]" pageId="3" pageNumber="210">G.</emphasis>
Fully open flower, back view;
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Bract;
<emphasis id="B956362FFF84732418AEF9F219C5F9D0" bold="true" box="[201,216,1631,1652]" pageId="3" pageNumber="210">I.</emphasis>
Perianth segments;
<emphasis id="B956362FFF84732419FDF9F218D6F9D0" bold="true" box="[410,459,1631,1653]" pageId="3" pageNumber="210">JK.</emphasis>
Flower dissected opened to show ovary and stamens.
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<emphasis id="B956362FFF84732418DAF90E1889F919" bold="true" box="[189,404,1699,1725]" pageId="3" pageNumber="210">Similar species:—</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B956362FFF84732419F2F90E1BA1F919" box="[405,700,1699,1725]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="210">Ophiopogon sclerophyllus</emphasis>
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is morphologically similar to
<taxonomicName id="4C2291BEFF8473241C77F9091C1DF919" authorityName="D. Fang" authorityYear="1978" box="[1040,1280,1699,1726]" class="Liliopsida" family="Asparagaceae" genus="Ophiopogon" kingdom="Plantae" order="Asparagales" pageId="3" pageNumber="210" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="pseudotonkinensis">
<emphasis id="B956362FFF8473241C77F9091C1DF919" box="[1040,1280,1699,1726]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="210">O. pseudotonkinensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, but differs the latter markedly by its thickly leathery leaf blade (vs. papery leaf blade), longer and slender inflorescence exceeding or as long as the leaves, raceme with more flowers, smaller flowers with more strongly expanded, recurved perianth segments, free anthers (vs. connate anthers), 3-sulcate styles (vs. fine cone style), and flowering (in cultivation) in May (vs. September). It is also resembles
<taxonomicName id="4C2291BEFF8473241A4BF8991AD6F8E9" authority="Averyanov &amp; N. Tanaka" authorityName="Averyanov &amp; N. Tanaka" box="[556,971,1843,1870]" class="Liliopsida" family="Asparagaceae" genus="Ophiopogon" kingdom="Plantae" order="Asparagales" pageId="3" pageNumber="210" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="petraeus">
<emphasis id="B956362FFF8473241A4BF8991BADF8E9" box="[556,688,1844,1870]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="210">O. petraeus</emphasis>
Averyanov &amp; N. Tanaka
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in
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Averyanov
<emphasis id="B956362FFF8473241C14F8991DB1F8E9" box="[1139,1196,1843,1869]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="210">et al.</emphasis>
(2015a: 30)
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described from northern
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by having linear-oblanceolate leaf blade, but is distinguishable chiefly by the shorter pedicel (
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vs.
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), oblong, recurved perianth segments (vs. ovate, distally slightly recurved perianth segments), and flowers under cultivation in May (vs. SeptemberOctober). In addition,
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<emphasis id="B956362FFF8473241B96F8321C07F81D" box="[1009,1306,1951,1977]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="210">Ophiopogon sclerophyllus</emphasis>
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differs from the similar species by its roots with tubercles. Details of the morphological differences amongst
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<emphasis id="B956362FFF8473241CADF8691C9CF879" box="[1226,1409,1987,2014]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="210">O. sclerophyllus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="B956362FFF8473241DF7F8691848F7A5" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="210">O. pseudotonkinensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="B956362FFF84732419EBF8451B13F7A5" box="[396,526,2024,2050]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="210">O. petraeus</emphasis>
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are presented in
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.
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