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Issue: Vol. 402 No. 1: 18 April 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-04-18
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.402.1.9
Page range: 63–67
Abstract views: 31
PDF downloaded: 1

Aspidistra minor (Asparagaceae, Nolinoideae), a tiny new species from Vietnam

Department of Higher Plants, Biological Faculty, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1, 12, Leninskie Gory, 119234 Moscow, Russia. Joint Russian-Vietnamese Tropical Scientific and Technological Center, Cau Giay, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Joint Russian-Vietnamese Tropical Scientific and Technological Center, Cau Giay, Hanoi, Vietnam. A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 33, Leninsky av., 119071 Moscow, Russia.
Joint Russian-Vietnamese Tropical Scientific and Technological Center, Cau Giay, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Main Botanical Garden of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 4, Botanicheskaya st., 127276 Moscow, Russia.
Department of Higher Plants, Biological Faculty, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1, 12, Leninskie Gory, 119234 Moscow, Russia. Joint Russian-Vietnamese Tropical Scientific and Technological Center, Cau Giay, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Kon Chu Rang Nature Reserve Gia Lai province tropical forest Monocots

Abstract

Aspidistra minor is described and illustrated as a new species from southern Vietnam (Gia Lai province, Kon Chu Rang Nature Reserve). The new species possesses very small ovate to elliptic leaf blades and very small flowers with stamens inserted at the base of the perigone. In flower structure, the new species resembles A. leucographa and A. elatior but strongly differs in shape of leaf blades and position of stamens.