生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Terrestrial. Rhizome creeping at base, ascending at top and forming a stem 5 cm tall, 0.7 cm in diameter, green.
• Leaves 4~6, densely arranged, long-petiolated; blade obliquely elliptic-ovate, up to 8 cm long, 3.6 cm wide, acute, entire but with a few waves at margins, green, glabrous, mainly 3-nerved; petioles 2.5~3 cm long, sheathed at base.
• Inflorescence terminal, 16 cm long, green; peduncle thick, stiff, covered with dense white hairs, with 4 or 5 sheathed bracts; raceme very short < 2 cm long; floral bracts up to 10 mm long, loosely hairy outside. Flowers not resupinate, 7 mm across; ovary hairy; sepals free, hairy outside, yellowish-brown to greenish-brown, turning white near tip, upper one oblong, boat-shaped, 4.5 x 2.5 mm, lateral ones elliptic-ovate, oblique, 5 x 3 mm; petals abutting upper sepal and forming a hood, falcate after flattened, 4.3 x 2 mm, white; lip free of column, greenish-brown, 5~6 mm long, oblong in outline when folded out, saccate at base containing 1 callosity on each side, 3-lobed, lateral lobes thickened, smooth, middle lobe reflexed, white, circular, acute at apex; column erect, 3.3 mm long; anther lying on clinandrium and short-stalked; rostellum evident, bifid; pollinia 2.

物候

Flowering time: July.

分布

• 台灣 : So far only found at Minghaishan (鳴海山), Liouguei, Kaohsiung Co. at an elevation of 1200 m.

引證標本

Weimin Lin s. n. (holo TAI 268959, Minghaishan, Lieukuei, Kaohsiung Co.).