生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Rhizomes terete, ca. 2 mm in diam. Pseudobulbs tufted or 1-2 cm apart, ovoid-conic, 1-3 cm long, 1-1.8 cm wide, greenish, glabrous.
• Leaves subsessile, oblong, 8-18 cm long, 2.5-5 cm wide, apex obtuse or rounded, base cuneate and attenuate into a canaliculate petiole; petiole 1-2 cm long.
• Scapes pale green, 10-20 cm long, 1 mm in diam., with 2 minute scales toward base; bracts lanceolate, 5 mm long; pedicel and ovary ca. 1 cm long. Flowers 3-5, in an umbel-like raceme, greenish yellow to pale yellow, tinged with purple; dorsal sepal lanceolate, 15-18 mm long, 3-5 mm wide, acuminate-caudate at apex; lateral sepals connate or divericate, linear-falcate, 25-35 mm long, 2 mm wide, acuminate at apex, oblique at base, more or less incurved; petals purplish, falcate, 5-6 mm long, 2-2.5 mm wide, oblique at apex; lip yellow, tongue-shaped, 4-6 mm long, curved, articulated with foot of column; column ca. 2-3 mm tall, with 2 large truncate stylids in front, foot slender, 4 mm long; anther cordate, 2-celled; pollinia in 2 groups, ellipsoid, 1.2 mm long.

分布

• 台灣 : common in forests at 300-1,000 m throughout the island.
• 世界 : Japan, the Ryukyus, India and Sri Lanka.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Wulai, Su 19; North Chiatienshan, Su & Chen 6850. ILAN: Shihtushan, Su 657. KAOHSIUNG: Liukuei, Su 734; Sanping, Su 9188. PINGTUNG: Linungshan, Su & Chen 8560; Nanjenshan, Su 7948.

參考文獻

• SU, Horng-Jye, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 768. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)