taxonID	type	description	language	source
03B487D7ED68FF83FF765D8BFBE85F9C.taxon	materials_examined	Type: — CHINA. Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Jingxi County, Tongde town, limestone mountains, alt. 780 m, 12 May 2012, Chun-Rui Lin 1036 (holotype, IBK!; isotype, IBK!). Herbs perennial, evergreen, rhizomatous. Rhizome creeping, subterete, 9 – 10 mm thick, covered with scales, nodes densely. Roots numerous. Vaginal leaves 4 – 5, 2 – 6 cm long, purple-red, becoming black-brown when dry. Leaves solitary; petiole stiffly upright, 9 – 22 cm long, 2 mm thick, adaxially sulcate; leaf blade linear, 50 – 60 cm long, 1.5 – 2.5 cm wide, dark green, base tapering into petiole, apex acuminate, margin entire, midvein distinct, lateral veins conspicuous when dried. Peduncle purple-red, 1.5 – 3 cm long, with 4 – 6 bracts; bracts gradually wider from base to top of peduncle, white with purple-red spots, 3 – 5 mm long, ca 5 mm wide, obtuse at apex. Flower solitary; perigone urceolate, ca 15 mm long, dark purple, adaxially finely papillose; lobes 6, triangular, slightly curved inward, 6 – 7 mm long, 5 – 6 mm wide at base, adaxially purple-red and with light yellow apex, with two prominent keels from top to the middle of perigone tube; perigone tube 8 – 9 mm long and 14 – 15 mm in diameter, adaxially dark purple. Stamens 6, opposite to the perigone lobes, inserted at the bottom of the perigone tube, significantly lower than stigma; anthers oblong, ca 2 mm long and 1 mm wide, filaments ca 1 mm long. Pistil mushroom-shaped, purple-red, ca 1 cm long, ovary inconspicuous, style short, cylindrical, ca 2 mm long and 1 mm in diameter, stigma peltate, subrotundate, ca 1 cm in diameter, upper surface with 3 whitish, ca 1 mm high, “ V ” shaped ribs, and 3 purple-red radial ribs from center to margin, slightly irregularly undulate at margin. Berry subglobose, 10 – 15 mm in diameter, slightly tuberculate. flowering in May to June, and fruiting in the next year from February to April.	en	Hu, Ren-Chuan, Shen, Xiao-Lin, Liu, Jing, Lin, Chun-Rui (2014): Aspidistra stenophylla (Asparagaceae), a new species from Guangxi, China. Phytotaxa 170 (1): 53-56, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.170.1.8, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.170.1.8
03B487D7ED68FF83FF765D8BFBE85F9C.taxon	distribution	Distribution and ecology: — This new species is currently known only from Jingxi County in southwestern Guangxi, China. It grows on a limestone slopes, under evergreen broad-leaved forest at 700 – 800 m altitude. Taxonomic relationships: — Aspidistra stenophylla is similar to A. omeiensis Zhu & Zhang (1981: 386) and A. linearifoli a Wan & Huang (1987: 220) in leaves linear, perigone dark purple, but differs by having perigone urceolate and adaxially densely papillose, lobes slightly curved inward, stigma upper surface with 3 whitish, ca 1 mm high, “ V ” shaped ribs. A detailed comparison to distinguish the three species is presented in Table 1.	en	Hu, Ren-Chuan, Shen, Xiao-Lin, Liu, Jing, Lin, Chun-Rui (2014): Aspidistra stenophylla (Asparagaceae), a new species from Guangxi, China. Phytotaxa 170 (1): 53-56, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.170.1.8, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.170.1.8
