After consulting herbarium specimens and relevant literature, XTBG researchers identified it as a new species. They named it as Aspidistra purpureomaculata to refer to its purple-spotted flowers, peduncles and cataphylls. The new species was published in Taiwania.

Chinese scientists have discovered a new begonia species in Yunnan Province in southwest China, removing another one from the list of many tuberous species estimated yet to be discovered or described in the country.