Aspidistra cryptantha
Aspidistra cryptantha is a species of flowering plant. A. cryptantha grows in evergreen on slopes of limestone mountains in Vietnam between heights of.
Description
This species is a perennial herb. Its rhizome is creeping, with a diameter of. Its cataphylls are short-lived, leaving remnants at the base of young leaves. Its leaves are delicate, apart, the petiole measuring about ; the lamina is ovate-lanceolate and acuminate, measuring by, and being rounded and cuneate, with several white spots and yellowish nerves in its lower surface. It also counts with 4 to 6 veins at each side.Its ascending peduncle measures ; its perigone tube is subgloboid, its greatest diameter measuring up to, counting with 6 lobes with 2 keels. Its anthers amount to 6 and are subsessile, each up to long; the pistil is flat and rectangular, the ovar is indistinct. The style is cylindrical, long, while the stigma is flat and measures in diameter and is 3-lobed, each lobe with a distal lobulum inflexum.