Aspidistra minor (Asparagaceae, Nolinoideae), a tiny new species from Vietnam

Abstract

Aspidistra minor is described and illustrated as a new species from southern Vietnam (Gia Lai province, Kon Chu Rang Nature Reserve). The new species possesses very small ovate to elliptic leaf blades and very small flowers with stamens inserted at the base of the perigone. In flower structure, the new species resembles A. leucographa and A. elatior but strongly differs in shape of leaf blades and position of stamens.

Two new species, Aspidistra liliiflora and A. sessilistigma (Asparagaceae, Convallariaceae s. str.) from Vietnam

“…Here we continue the publication of new species of the genus Aspidistra Ker‐Gawler (1822, p. 628) discovered recently in Vietnam in addition to many more species of this genus discovered and reported from Vietnam during the last five years (Averyanov and Tillich 2015, 2016a, b, Vislobokov 2015, 2016, Averyanov et al 2016, 2017, 2018a, b, 2019a, b, 2020a, b, 2021, Ly and Tillich 2016, 2017, Vislobokov et al 2016, 2017, 2019a, b, c2019c, Ly et al 2017, 2021, Nguyen et al 2017, 2020, Nuraliev 2017, Tillich et al 2017, Tillich and Averyanov 2018, Pham et al 2021).…”

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...…”

Figure 1 from: Vislobokov NA, Fu L-F, Wei Y-G, Nuraliev MS (2021) Leaf epidermal micromorphology in Aspidistra (Asparagaceae): diversity and taxonomic significance. PhytoKeys 185: 65-86. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.185.72259

“…Moreover, the flowering takes place only in a particular season, which differs among the species, so that only a part of individuals of the genus (if any) are usually observed to produce flowers in a given forest. A widely used technique of specimen identification in Aspidistra is collecting sterile living material and obtaining the flowers under cultivation Tillich 2014, 2015;Vislobokov et al 2019b). However, this method requires a preliminary estimation of the number of the species inhabiting a given area.…”