taxonID	type	description	language	source
03FD575F616B2317FF40FA03FB7FFD53.taxon	materials_examined	TYPE: — VIETNAM. Ha Giang province: Quan Ba district, Can Ty commune, Sin Suoi Ho village, around point 23.09566 ° N 105.02142 ° E, very steep mountain slopes composed of solid highly eroded karstic limestone at elevation 800 – 1000 m a. s. l., remnants of primary evergreen broad-leaved and coniferous (with Calocedrus rupestris and Xanthocyparis vietnamensis) humid forest, terrestrial herb in shady place among rocks, 11 October 2019, L. Averyanov, Nguyen Sinh Khang, T. Maisak VR 1548 (holotype: LE: LE 01067134 photo!; isotypes: HN, MW: MW 0595840!; flowering and fruiting). Image of holotype available at: https: // en. herbariumle. ru /? t = occ & id = 12854 Photos of living plants used for preparation of type specimens available at: https: // en. herbariumle. ru /? t = occ & id = 13148 https: // en. herbariumle. ru /? t = occ & id = 99504 Additional specimens examined: — CHINA. Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region: Chongzuo City, Longzhou County, Zhubu town, Nongzai village, path to Sancunshan hill, limestone slope, 22 ° 29.335 ’ N 106 ° 56.212 ’ E, elev. 250 m, 25 November 2016, N. A. Vislobokov, M. S. Nuraliev, B. Pan, F. Wen G 72 (IBK; MW: MW 0753756, MW 0753762, MW 0753767, sterile); living plant from the same gathering cultivated in the Main Botanical Garden of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), garden number: 2016.12352 (and spirit material of flowers from this plant in collection of Moscow University, flowered in May 2022).	en	Nuraliev, Maxim S., Romanov, Mikhail S., Drokina, Victoria G., Fu, Long-Fei, Vislobokov, Nikolay A. (2023): Two newly recorded species of Aspidistra (Asparagaceae) for the flora of China: A. obliqua and A. triradiata. Phytotaxa 600 (4): 248-254, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.600.4.4, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-04-22-0755-PDN
03FD575F616B2317FF40FA03FB7FFD53.taxon	discussion	Notes: — The Chinese specimen shows several significant morphological differences from the type specimen of A. obliqua, which, however, do not prevent us from assigning our specimen to this species. In particular, in the living material of Vislobokov et al. G 72, the leaf blade is lustrous (vs velvety); however, this difference is not evident when comparing dried specimens. Then, the stamens are inserted at level of 1 / 3 of perigone tube (vs at middle of perigone tube), and the pistil is evidently mushroom-shaped with convex stigma (vs obconoid). The pistil in the Chinese specimen is white in the basal half, whereas it is described as dark purple black to black in the protologue. At the same time, Figure 6 in Averyanov et al. (2020 a) depicts a flower (right side of plate, second flower from above) with the same pistil coloration as in the Chinese specimen. In addition, in Vislobokov et al. G 72, the stamens are free from the pistil (similarly to all the other known species of the genus), whereas Averyanov et al. (2020 a) described the type material to uniformly have stamens densely appressed to the pistil right below stigma, and (1 –) 2 (– 3) of them fused with the pistil by filament apices. We suppose that such an unusual floral construction could be a result of a teratological nature of the type material.	en	Nuraliev, Maxim S., Romanov, Mikhail S., Drokina, Victoria G., Fu, Long-Fei, Vislobokov, Nikolay A. (2023): Two newly recorded species of Aspidistra (Asparagaceae) for the flora of China: A. obliqua and A. triradiata. Phytotaxa 600 (4): 248-254, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.600.4.4, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-04-22-0755-PDN
03FD575F616B2317FF40FA03FB7FFD53.taxon	distribution	Distribution: — China (Guangxi: Longzhou County), Vietnam (Ha Giang: Quan Ba district).	en	Nuraliev, Maxim S., Romanov, Mikhail S., Drokina, Victoria G., Fu, Long-Fei, Vislobokov, Nikolay A. (2023): Two newly recorded species of Aspidistra (Asparagaceae) for the flora of China: A. obliqua and A. triradiata. Phytotaxa 600 (4): 248-254, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.600.4.4, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-04-22-0755-PDN
03FD575F616B2317FF40FA03FB7FFD53.taxon	biology_ecology	Ecology and phenology: — Aspidistra obliqua inhabits evergreen broad-leaved and coniferous forests on limestone karst at elevations of 250 – 1000 m a. s. l. Flowering and fruiting in nature in October – November.	en	Nuraliev, Maxim S., Romanov, Mikhail S., Drokina, Victoria G., Fu, Long-Fei, Vislobokov, Nikolay A. (2023): Two newly recorded species of Aspidistra (Asparagaceae) for the flora of China: A. obliqua and A. triradiata. Phytotaxa 600 (4): 248-254, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.600.4.4, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-04-22-0755-PDN
03FD575F61692317FF40FD69FB0EF807.taxon	materials_examined	TYPE: — VIETNAM. Vinh Phuc province: Tam Dao district, Tam Dao National Park, about 6 km NW of Tam Dao town, 21 ° 29.942 ’ N 105 ° 36.973 ’ E, elev. 1208 m, rainforest, 19 November 2014, N. A. Vislobokov 14098 (holotype: MW: MW 0595636!; flowering). Image of holotype available at: https: // depo. msu. ru / open / public / en / item / MW 0595636 Additional specimens examined: — CHINA. Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region: Baise City, Napo County, Baishen town, Nonglong village, slope of limestone hill, 23 ° 14.377 ’ N 105 ° 33.764 ’ E, elev. 1188 m, 22 November 2016, N. A. Vislobokov, M. S. Nuraliev, B. Pan, F. Wen, Z. B. Xin G 30 (IBK: IBK 00407784; MW: MW 0753785, MW 0753786; flowering); living plant from the same gathering cultivated in the Main Botanical Garden of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), garden number: 2016.12342; Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region: Laibin City, Jinxiu Yao Autonomous County, Dayao Mountain Park, Shengtang mountain, mountain slope, forest with bamboo, 23 ° 58.493 ’ N 110 ° 06.741 ’ E, elev. 1229 m, 11 November 2017, N. A. Vislobokov, M. S. Nuraliev, J. Dong G 168 (IBK; MW: MW 0754786, MW 0754787, MW 0754788; fruiting); living plant from the same gathering cultivated in the Main Botanical Garden of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), garden number: 2017.13475 (flowered in March 2018).	en	Nuraliev, Maxim S., Romanov, Mikhail S., Drokina, Victoria G., Fu, Long-Fei, Vislobokov, Nikolay A. (2023): Two newly recorded species of Aspidistra (Asparagaceae) for the flora of China: A. obliqua and A. triradiata. Phytotaxa 600 (4): 248-254, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.600.4.4, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-04-22-0755-PDN
03FD575F61692317FF40FD69FB0EF807.taxon	discussion	Notes: — Aspidistra triradiata belongs to the so-called A. hainanensis species complex. This complex is characterized by tufted leaves, i. e., by presence of several foliage leaves per elementary shoot (Tillich & Averyanov 2012, Tillich 2014, 2023, Averyanov et al. 2018, Ding et al. 2021, Vislobokov et al. 2021), and distinguished from other species with tufted leaves by perigone lobes with 4 – 6 keels and mushroom-shaped pistils (Tillich 2023). Specimen identification within this complex is known to be complicated by incompletely understood morphological boundaries and geographical distribution of its species. A specimen Le Tuan Anh s. n. collected in Quang Tri province of Vietnam and assigned to A. triradiata was reported as a source for investigation of chemical compounds by Le et al. (2022, 2023 a, 2023 b). After investigation of analytical field photographs of this specimen kindly provided by Le Tuan Anh (see also LE: LE 01123061), a collector of this specimen, we concluded that it shows considerable differences from A. triradiata, including campanulate (vs urceolate) perigone tube and stigma entirely white above (vs with three purple radial lines). We here re-identify this specimen as A. hainanensis W. Y. Chun & F. C. How in Guangdong Institute of Botany (1977: 533) s. s. Wei (2018) included A. triradiata in a list of native plants of Guangxi and indicated this species to be found in Napo (where our collection Vislobokov et al. G 30 was also made). However, Wei (2018) did not cite any collections or references for this occurrence, which makes it impossible to be verified, especially given the taxonomic difficulties in A. hainanensis complex described above. Here, we report A. triradiata from China confirmed by specimen investigation and photographs of living flowers for the first time.	en	Nuraliev, Maxim S., Romanov, Mikhail S., Drokina, Victoria G., Fu, Long-Fei, Vislobokov, Nikolay A. (2023): Two newly recorded species of Aspidistra (Asparagaceae) for the flora of China: A. obliqua and A. triradiata. Phytotaxa 600 (4): 248-254, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.600.4.4, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-04-22-0755-PDN
03FD575F61692317FF40FD69FB0EF807.taxon	distribution	Distribution: — China (Guangxi: counties Napo and Jinxiu), Vietnam (Vinh Phuc: Tam Dao district).	en	Nuraliev, Maxim S., Romanov, Mikhail S., Drokina, Victoria G., Fu, Long-Fei, Vislobokov, Nikolay A. (2023): Two newly recorded species of Aspidistra (Asparagaceae) for the flora of China: A. obliqua and A. triradiata. Phytotaxa 600 (4): 248-254, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.600.4.4, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-04-22-0755-PDN
03FD575F61692317FF40FD69FB0EF807.taxon	biology_ecology	Ecology and phenology: — Aspidistra triradiata inhabits diverse types of evergreen forests, including forests on limestone karst, at elevations around 1200 m a. s. l. Flowering and fruiting in nature in November.	en	Nuraliev, Maxim S., Romanov, Mikhail S., Drokina, Victoria G., Fu, Long-Fei, Vislobokov, Nikolay A. (2023): Two newly recorded species of Aspidistra (Asparagaceae) for the flora of China: A. obliqua and A. triradiata. Phytotaxa 600 (4): 248-254, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.600.4.4, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-04-22-0755-PDN
