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Aspidistra nikolaii

Aspidistra nikolaii
Photo: Daniel Ellehammer Larsen, CC BY 4.0
Family
Asparagaceae (Asparagus family)
Grows as
Bulb
Native range
Vietnam
Climate
wet tropical

About

Aspidistra nikolaii is a plant species of the genus Aspidistra that was one of the new 21 species of plants and animals recently discovered in the Annamite Range of central Vietnam. It was named after a late Russian botanist named Nicolai Arnautov. It has a dark blue flower that is almost black.

Other Aspidistra plants

Aspidistra alata · Aspidistra campanulata · Aspidistra cryptantha · Cast Iron Plant · Aspidistra grandiflora · Aspidistra letreae · Aspidistra nutans · Aspidistra phongdiensis · Aspidistra recondita · Aspidistra umbrosa · Aspidistra yingjiangensis · Cast Iron Plant

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Aspidistra nikolaii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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