• Scientific Name: Aspidistra retusa K.Y.Lang & S.Z.Huang
• Ref: Acta Phytotax. Sin. 19:379. 1981
• Chinese Common Name: 广西蜘蛛抱蛋 Guǎngxī zhīzhū∙bào∙dàn
• Family: Asparagaceae
• Genus: Aspidistra
• Distribution: NE Guangxi (Jinxiu Yao Zu Zizhixian, Lingui Xian, Yangshuo Xian).
• Photo: Hangzhou Botanical Garden, Zhejiang

Rhizome subterete, ca. 5 mm thick, densely covered with scales. Leaves solitary; petiole 16--33 cm; leaf blade oblong to oblong-lanceolate, base cuneate, apex acuminate. Scape 2.5--4.5 cm; bracts 5 or 6. Flower solitary. Perianth campanulate, (5 or)6-lobed; tube 1.3--1.5 × 0.9--1 cm; lobes ± recurved, deltoid-ovate, ca. 4 × 3 mm, rather thick. Stamens (5 or)6, inserted distally in perianth tube, positioned much higher than stigma, subsessile; anthers ovate, ca. 1.8 mm. Pistil ca. 4 mm; style obviously articulate; stigma slightly enlarged, ca. 1.5 mm in diam., 6-lobed or undulate-lobed at margin. Fl. Apr. 2 n = 36*. (Flora of China)