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Issue: Vol. 422 No. 3: 30 October 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-10-30
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.422.3.8
Page range: 289–294
Abstract views: 37
PDF downloaded: 1

Aspidistra micrantha (Asparagaceae, Nolinoideae), a new species from Vietnam with unusually small flowers

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.
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, 119071 Moscow, Russia.
Joint Russian-Vietnamese Tropical Scientific and Technological Center, Cau Giay, Hanoi, Vietnam.
flower Quang Nam province Song Thanh Nature Reserve tropical forest Monocots

Abstract

Aspidistra micrantha is described and illustrated as a new species from southern Vietnam (Quang Nam province, Song Thanh Nature Reserve). The new species has globoid flowers, which are the smallest within the genus Aspidistra. In floral structure, the closest species to A. micrantha is A. urceolata, which is endemic to the Guizhou province of China, but strongly differs from the latter in some morphological features of the rhizome, leaves and position of anthers.