identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
03F787F4FF9BFFB1A3ACFC8829C0F91B.text	03F787F4FF9BFFB1A3ACFC8829C0F91B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Aspidistra qijiangensis S. Z. He & X. Y. Luo 2018	<div><p>Aspidistra qijiangensis S.Z.He &amp; X.Y.Luo sp. nov. (Fig. 1)</p><p>Type: —   CHINA. Chongqing municipality,  Qijiang district, Dongxi town, under the shrub on the hillsides, elevation ca. 500 m, 4 April 2017, X.Y. Luo 170414 (holotype, GZTM!)  .</p><p>Herbs perennial, 90–120 cm high, rhizome creeping, subterete, 7–10 mm thick, covered with scales, internodes congested. Roots elongate. Leaf sheaths 1 − 2, purple-black, 10–18 cm long, enclosing the base of leaves, fibrous when withered. Leaves solitary, 3 − 5 cm apart, leaf blade narrow oblanceolate, 70–95 × 2.5–4 cm, apex gradually acuminate, base gradually narrowed into petiole; petiole 20–25 cm long. Penduncle 1–4.5 cm long, white, erect, bracts 2–3, triangular ovate, white with purple spots, 4–7 × 5–8 mm. Flower solitary, erect. Perigone campanulate, purple-red, 1.0 − 1.5 cm tall, 8-lobed, perigone tube 5–10 mm in length, 10–12 mm in diameter, lobes purple-red, triangular lanceolate, 4.5–5 mm long and ca. 3 mm wide at base, with 4 keels at lower third. Stamens 8, inserted at lower 1/3 part of tube, filament short, anthers oblong, ca. 2–3 mm in length. Pistil nearly umbrella, ca. 5–7 mm in length, ovary slightly swelled, ca. 3 mm in diameter, stigma peltate swelled, central slightly convex, 5–8 mm in diameter, with 8 pairs of ridges from the edge to the central convergence on the upper surface and in each pair of ridges, there is a white groove, 4-lobed at margin, lobes slightly lobed, apex obtuse, bent, abaxial surface white, with 8 deep groove nest. Ovary 4-loculed, each room with 1 ovule. Fruit berry irregular spherical, 2–3 cm high and 1.5–2 cm in diameter, with small spines on the surface. Flowering phase: March to April.</p><p>Distribution and Habitat:—The new species grows under shrubs on hillsides, elevation ca. 500 m, distributed in Dongxi town, Qijiang district, Chongqing municipality, China.</p><p>Taxonomic relationships:—The new species is similar to  Aspidistra oblanceifolia Wang &amp; Lang (1982: 487),  Aspidistra nanchuanensis Tillich (2006: 139) and  Aspidistra sichuanensis Lang &amp; Zhu (1984: 387), the major differences among these species are illustrated in Table 1, and lie in the length of leaf blade, the diameter of perigone, perigone lobe features, stigma characters and ovules.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F787F4FF9BFFB1A3ACFC8829C0F91B	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Luo, Xin-Yan;Xu, Wen-Fen;He, Shun-Zhi	Luo, Xin-Yan, Xu, Wen-Fen, He, Shun-Zhi (2018): Aspidistra qijiangensis (Asparagaceae), a new species from Chongqing, China. Phytotaxa 360 (1): 74-76, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.360.1.9, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.360.1.9
