FLORA OF VIETNAM Fam. Liliaceae s.l. Disporum calcaratum D.Don var. rubiflorum Gagnep. S. Vietnam, Prov. Kontum. Evergreen primary forest at 1800-1900 m alt. on W slope of Ngoc Linh mountain system on elevation to Ngoc Gua peak. Herb up to 3 m high in open places. Flowers violet black. Not common. No VH 1299 10.04.1995 International Botanical Expedition of the U.S.A. National Geographic Society (grant No 5094-93) Participants: L. Averyanov, N.T. Ban, N. Q. Binh, A. Budantzev, L. Budantzev, N.T. Hiep, D.D. Huyen, P.K. Loc, N.X. Tam, G. Yakovlev

N. Tanaka note:Judging from the image of the specimen, the lobation of stigmatic branches issignificantly deeper (the branches are equaling in length the proximal simplestyle portion) than in var. cantoniense.Further, the proportion of anthers in length to the filaments within a flower islarger.The specimen is annotated by Hiep as D. calcaratum var. rubiflorum,but I have been unsuccessful to trace the name in literature.