Aspidistra Ker-Gawler 1822
Creators: name: Deng, Chuang-Fa
name: Wu, Lei
name: Yu, Xun-Lin
name: Xu, Yong-Fu
name: Li, Jia-Xiang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Asparagaceae
Aspidistra

description: Key to species of Aspidistra in Hunan Province   
1. Leaf blade lorate to lorate-oblanceolate, no wider than 2.5 cm.........................................................................................................2  
- Leaf blade oblong-lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, oblanceolate-oblong, narrowly lanceolate, elliptic-lanceolate; leaf blade wider than 2.8 cm.........................................................................................................................................................................................3  
 2. Perianth urceolate, 4.5–5 × 4–6 mm.............................................................................................................................. A. minutiflora   
 - Perianth campanulate, tube 1–1.2 × 1.3–1.5 cm........................................................................................................... A. hainanensis   
3. Stamens inserted at middle of perianth tube.......................................................................................................................................4  
- Stamens inserted middle-lower or proximally in perianth tube.........................................................................................................5  
 4. Stamens positioned higher than stigma................................................................................................................................ A. triloba   
 - Stamens positioned lower than stigma......................................................................................................................... A. hezhouensis   
5. Stigma 4-lobed at margin...................................................................................................................................................................6  
 - Stigma 3-lobed at margin........................................................................................................................................ A. yuelushanensis   
 6. Stigma strongly convex, lobes entire, lobes margins not held erect...................................................................................... A. lurida   
- Stigma slightly or not convex, lobes emarginate at apex, lobes margins held erect..........................................................................7  
 7. Leaf blade oblanceolate-oblong.............................................................................................................................. A.fenghuangensis   
- Leaf blade oblong-lanceolate, lanceolate, or subelliptic, not oblanceolate-oblong...........................................................................8  
 8. Leaf blade 20–45 × 6–10 cm, margins entire; keels of perianth lobes strongly fleshy, not papillose; pistil 8 mm long. The grooves between 3 to 4 pairs of ridges on the upper surface of stigma are irregular.......................................................................... A. elatior   
 - Leaf blade 20–35 × 4–8 cm, margins serrulate; keels of perianth lobes not fleshy, papillose; pistil 4 mm long. The grooves between 3 to 4 pairs of ridges on the upper surface of stigma are regular................................................................................ A. sichuanensis
description: Published as part of Deng, Chuang-Fa, Wu, Lei, Yu, Xun-Lin, Xu, Yong-Fu & Li, Jia-Xiang, 2021, Aspidistra yuelushanensis (Asparagaceae), a new species from Hunan, China, pp. 183-190 in Phytotaxa 482 (2) on pages 187-188, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.482.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/5419037