Aspidistra phongdiensis
A recently described Aspidistra from central Vietnam, known from very few collections. Like most Vietnamese Aspidistra it is a rhizomatous forest-floor herb that wants deep shade, warm humid air and a soil that never dries out completely. Its small, ground-level flowers are the main reason collectors grow it.
Where it grows wild
Little is published beyond the type collection; by analogy with related central Vietnamese species it grows on the floor of humid evergreen lowland to submontane forest, often on rocky or limestone-derived slopes, in leaf litter under a closed canopy.
No elevations recorded; the single climate site used sits at about 120 m, and lowland to low-montane forest is likely.
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