海南蜘蛛抱蛋 hai nan zhi zhu bao dan

Rhizome ca. 8 mm thick, stout. Leaves 2--4-tufted; petiole 3--10 cm; leaf blade lorate, 50--70 × 1--1.5 cm. Scape 5--18 mm; bracts ca. 4. Flower solitary. Perianth purple or tinged with yellow, campanulate, 6(--8)-lobed apically; tube 1--1.2 × 1.3--1.5 cm; lobes recurved, oblong-ovate, 8--10 × ca. 2 mm, 4-keeled adaxially, keels fleshy, smooth, central 2 extending from base of tube to apex of lobes, other 2 short or sometimes inconspicuous. Stamens 6(--8), inserted proximally in perianth tube, subsessile; anthers transversely elliptic, ca. 1.5 × 2 mm. Pistil ca. 8 mm; stigma peltate, orbicular, large, 1--1.3 cm in diam., 3-lobed at margin. Fl. Mar--Apr. 2 n = 38*.

* Moist places along ravines, forests; ca. 600 m. S Guangdong (Xinyi Xian, Zhuhai Shi), EC Guangxi (Jinxiu Yao Zu Zizhixian), S Hainan (Sanya).