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 30 cm; the lamina is obovate, measuring 50 by, being narrowly cuneate, tapering towards the petiole.

Its decumbent peduncle measures 7 cm 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 30 mm, 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 3 mm long; the ovar is indistinct. The style is 3 by long, while the stigma is disc-shaped and is 8 mm 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.