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.
Distribution Aspidistra grandiflora is known only from its type locality, in Mai Châu District, Hòa Bình Province, Vietnam.
References
Further reading Gao, Qi, and Yan Liu. "Karyomorphology of Aspidistra grandiflora HJ Tillich from Indonesia." The Nucleus 55.3 (2012): 139–141. Meng, Tao, and Qi Gao. "Karyomorphology of six species of the genus Aspidistra Ker-Gawl.(Fam. Asparagaceae sl) from China." The Nucleus 57.2 (2014): 143–147. Tillich, H-J. "An updated and improved determination key for Aspidistra Ker-Gawl.(Ruscaceae, Monocotyledons)." Feddes Repertorium 119.5-6 (2008): 449–462. Tillich, Hans-Juergen. "The genus Aspidistra Ker-Gawl.(Asparagaceae) in Vietnam." Taiwania 59.1 (2014): 1–8.