Accession Data

Aspidistra tonkinensis

Common Name: Cast Iron Plant

Family: Asparagaceae

Synonym(s): Colania tonkinensis Gagnep.

Country of Origin: S. China to N. Vietnam

Accession Data

Accession #: 201900384

Accession Date: 2019-10-09 00:00:00

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 1209

Quantity: 1

Source: Rob Nicholson (Wellesley) ex NYBG ex Dylan Hannon (Huntington)

Provenance:

HBG# 108816
Collected by Dylan Hannon, Ron Kaufmann, Alan Galloway.  Sept 10, 2009.
“10Sep09 Site 2 Vietnam:  SW of Hanoi, on forest floor. 173m. Grown until 10/14 as A. sp. "maculata"
ID as A. fungilliformis ssp. formosa by D. Hannon. Voucher made. 
Grown until 1/20 as A. f. ssp. formosa, a syn.”

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Liliopsida

Subclass: monocots

Order: Asparagales

Family: Asparagaceae

SubFamily: Nolinoideae

Tribe: Convallarieae

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2025
2024
2023
2022

References

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Wednesday, 09 October, 2019.
  2. WCSP (2019). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Wednesday, 09 October, 2019.
  3. Angiosperm Phylogeny Website at MoBot. Last accessed on Tuesday, 03 December, 2019.

Images

Aspidistra tonkinensis