Appendicula reflexa

台灣竹葉蘭

Appendicula reflexa Blume

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Blume, Bijdragen tot de flora van Nederlandsch Indië 301. 1825. (Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind.)

Appendicula formosana Hayata

Hayata, Materials for a flora of Formosa 340. 1911. (Mat. Fl. Formos.)
Podochilus taiwanianus S. S. Ying

S. S. Ying, Coloured illustrations of indigeous orchids of Taiwan 1: 297. fig. 108. 1977. (Col. Ill. Indig. Orch. Taiwan)
Appendicula cornuta Blume var. formosana (Hayata) S. S. Ying

Ying, Coloured illustrations of indigeous orchids of Taiwan 2: 395. 1990. (Col. Ill. Indig. Orch. Taiwan)
Podochilus formosanus (Hayata) S. S. Ying

Ying, Coloured illustrations of indigeous orchids of Taiwan 5: 609. 1995. (Col. Ill. Indig. Orch. Taiwan)

herb

Epiphytic plants. Stems tufted, ascending or pendulous, to 40 cm tall; internodes ca. 1 cm long.
Leaves oblong, lower ones often elliptic, 2-4 cm long, 7-15 mm wide, apex obtuse or rounded and shallowly 2-lobed, often minutely aristate in sinus, base twisted, articulate with tube-like sheath.
Racemes arising terminally and laterally throughout stem, rachis short, ca. 1 cm long, with 5-15 flowers closely arranged like head; bracts triangular-ovate, 2-3 mm long; pedicel and ovary 2-3 mm long. Flowers pale greenish, perianth subspreading, fleshy; dorsal sepal ovate-elliptic, 2-2.5 mm long, 1.5-1.8 mm wide, obtuse; lateral sepals triangular-ovate, 3-3.5 mm long, 2.5 mm wide, oblique, adnate to foot of column and connate at base forming mentum 1.5 mm long; petals elliptic, 2-2.5 mm long, 1 mm wide, obtuse; lip 2.5-3 mm long, with saccate base and an ovate or orbicular limb, limb entire or obscurely undulate, base continuous to shortly ligulate appendage toward basal sac; column ca. 1 mm tall, foot oblong, straight, 1.5 mm long; pollinia clavate, yellow, ca. 0.7 mm long.
Capsules ellipsoid, 6 mm long.