Aspidistra maguanensis (Asparagaceae), a new species from Yunnan, China

Abstract

In November 2014, an investigation at Yunnan province, Maguan county, revealed some unknown taller plants of Aspidistra Ker Gawler (1822: 628) under shrubs at the top of the mountain. This species was identified as new for science after studying relevant literature (Li 1988, 2004, Tillich 2005, 2008, 2014, Tillich et al. 2007, He et al. 2011, Liu et al. 2011, Lin et al. 2012, 2014, 2015, Vislobokov et al. 2014, Xu et al. 2015).

200 years Aspidistra (Asparagaceae), and now more than 200 species: a new comprehensive determination key, and an annotated bibliography of the genus

“…Since the publication of a previous comprehensive key for Aspidistra considering 93 species (Tillich 2008), a great deal of new species and some subspecies and varieties have been described, mainly from southern China and Vietnam (Tillich and Averyanov 2008, 2012, 2017, 2018, Hou et al 2009, Lin et al 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013a, b, 2014a, b, 2015a, b, 2019, Deng et al 2010, Phonsena and de Wilde 2010, Xu et al 2010, 2015a, b, 2017, Gao and Liu 2011, He et al 2011a, b, 2013, Lin and Liu 2011a, b, Liu et al 2011, 2016, Averyanov and Tillich 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, Tillich and Leong‐Škorničkova 2013, Vislobokov et al 2013, 2014a, b, 2016a, b, 2017, 2019a, b, c, Hu et al 2014, Leong‐Škorničkova et al 2014, Meng et al 2014, Sun et al 2014, Colin 2015, Guo et al 2015, Huang et al 2015, Vislobokov 2015, 2016, Averyanov et al 2016, 2017, 2018a, b, 2019a, b, c, 2020a, b, c, 2021a, b, 2022, Liang et al 2016, Lý and Tillich 2016, 2017, Pan et al 2016, 2019, 2020, Ta...…”