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 600 and 800 m.

Description
This species is a perennial herb. Its rhizome is creeping, with a diameter of 5 mm. Its cataphylls are short-lived, leaving remnants at the base of young leaves. Its leaves are delicate, 1 to 1.5 mm apart, the petiole measuring about 18 to 25 cm; the lamina is ovate-lanceolate and acuminate, measuring 17 to 20 cm by 5 to 6 cm, 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 1 to 2 cm; its perigone tube is subgloboid, its greatest diameter measuring up to 7 mm, counting with 6 lobes with 2 keels. Its anthers amount to 6 and are subsessile, each up to 1 mm long; the pistil is flat and rectangular, the ovar is indistinct. The style is cylindrical, 2 to 3 mm long, while the stigma is flat and measures 2 to 3 mm in diameter and is 3-lobed, each lobe with a distal lobulum inflexum.

Distribution
Aspidistra cryptantha is known only from its type locality, in Trà Lĩnh District, Cao Bằng Province, Vietnam.