Aspidistra cryptantha is a species of flowering plant. A. cryptantha grows in evergreen on slopes of limestone mountains in Vietnam between heights of 600mand800mm (2,000feetand2,600feetm).[1]
This species is a perennial herb. Its rhizome is creeping, with a diameter of 5mm. Its cataphylls are short-lived, leaving remnants at the base of young leaves. Its leaves are delicate, 1mm1.5mm apart, the petiole measuring about 18cmto25cmcm (07inchesto10inchescm); the lamina is ovate-lanceolate and acuminate, measuring 17cmto20cmcm (07inchesto10inchescm) by 5cmto6cmcm (02inchesto02inchescm), and being rounded and cuneate, with several white spots and yellowish nerves in its lower surface. It also counts with 4 to 6 veins at each side.
Its ascending peduncle measures 1cmto2cmcm (00inchesto01inchescm); its perigone tube is subgloboid, its greatest diameter measuring up to 7mm, counting with 6 lobes with 2 keels. Its anthers amount to 6 and are subsessile, each up to 1mm long; the pistil is flat and rectangular, the ovar is indistinct. The style is cylindrical, 2mm3mm long, while the stigma is flat and measures 2mm3mm in diameter and is 3-lobed, each lobe with a distal lobulum inflexum.
Aspidistra cryptantha is known only from its type locality, in Trà Lĩnh District, Cao Bằng Province, Vietnam.