生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Rhizomes creeping, slender, less than 1 mm thick; internodes 1-2 cm long; leafy nodes alternate with naked nodes.
• Leaves well spaced, elliptic to oblong, 10-30 mm long, 8-10 mm wide, rounded at apex, nearly sessile.
• Racemes axillary, 1.5-2 cm long, with a few sheaths at base; bracts ovate, 2-3 mm long, 1.5 mm wide; pedicel and ovary 2-2.5 mm long. Flowers 1-3, minute, yellowish white; dorsal sepal narrowly oblong, 3-3.6 mm long, 1.3-1.5 mm wide, obtuse at apex, 3-nerved; lateral sepals adnate to column foot, obliquely triangular, 3-3.6 mm long, 1.8 mm wide, 3-nerved; petals linear, 1.5 mm long, 1-nerved; lip orange, elliptic, 1.5 mm long, base erect, apex recurved and rounded; column 1 mm long, with 2 short acute wings at apex, base produced into a foot ca. 1.5 mm long.

分布

• 台灣 : recorded from a few localities from low to middle elevations.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Pinglin, Su 1480; Wulai, Su 9438. HUALIEN: Lintinshan, Lin 63.

參考文獻

• SU, Horng-Jye, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 729. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)