生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Terristrial, achlorophyllous holomycotrophic herbs. Rhizome ascending or J-shaped, blackish, covered with triangular scales.
• Inflorescence 15-40 cm high, 1-2 mm in diam., solitary or branched, branchlets 10-20 cm long, dark redish borwn, sparsely scaled, slightly tuberculated near nodes. Scales blackish, triangulat, thick, 3-4 mm long. Rachis 1-5 cm long; flower densely arranged, successively opened. Floral bract ovate, acute, 1.5-2.5 mm long. Pedicellate ovary ascending to erect, 1.5-2 cm long. Flower hardly opened, pale yellow tinged with light brownish purple. Sepals similar, oblanceolate- oblong, strongly concave, 10-11 mm long, ca. 2 mm wide when flattened, acute at apex. Petals spathulate, somewhat concave, 10-11 mm long, ca. 2.5 mm wide when flattened, obtuse at apex. Lip free from column, spathulate, trilobed, 10-11 mm long, ca. 3 mm wide in natural situation, 4 mm wide when flattened; side lobes erect, semiorbicular, ca. 0.8 mm long; midlobe rectangular, ca. 3 mm long, 3.5 mm wide when flattened, irregularly dentate at margin, truncate at apex, with sparse multicellular hairs on surface. Column white, clavate, 6.5-7 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, papillose on ventral side and column wings. Anther ca. 1.2 mm wide, minutely papillose.
• Capsule ascending to erect, 18-22 mm long.

引證標本

Pingtung Co.: Shizi Township, Shouka, ca. 400 m alt., 4 Jul 2008, T.C. Hsu 1438 (holotype TAIF), here designated.

參考文獻

• Tian-Chuan Hsu and Shih-Wen Chung, Taiwania 55(4): 363-369. 2010.