Aspidistra grandiflora
Aspidistra grandiflora is a species of flowering plant. A. grandiflora grows in Vietnam in dry broad-leaved lowland forests on karstic limestone outcrops with fissures.
Description
This species is a perennial herb. Its rhizome is creeping. Its leaves are solitary, the petiole measuring about ; the lamina is obovate, measuring, being narrowly cuneate, tapering towards the petiole.Its decumbent peduncle measures long; its flowers are solitary or in groups of 2 or 3; perigone tube is urceolate, twice as wide as high, its diameter measuring up to, counting with 11 or 12 whitish and purplish mottled lobes, each one counting with a basal white appendage. It counts with 11 or 12 stamens, while its anthers are subsessile and ovoid, each up to long; the ovar is indistinct. The style is long, while the stigma is disc-shaped and is thick, its central part white with 5 purple ribs, with 22-24 teeth.