生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Stem often less than 20 cm tall, simple or branched once or twice.
• Leaves solitary, rarely 2, ovate to cordate, 11 cm long, 6.5 cm wide, apex acute, base rounded, with 3-6 lateral veins on each side, veinlet 2-6; sheaths less than 2 cm long.
• Spikes terminal, 4-8 cm long; bracts lanceolate, glabrous. Flowers 10- 20, white, glabrous; sepals subequal, dorsal sepal free, narrowly lanceolate, 9-10 mm long, lateral sepal connate 9/10 their length, 10-11 mm long, saccate at base; petals triangular-lanceolate, shorter than sepals, keeled; lip ca. 9 mm long, 2 mm wide, saccate at base, narrowly ligulate at apex, disc with 2 longitudinal ridges; column straight, 5-6 mm long; anther lanceolate, 3-3.3 mm long, acuminate at apex; pollinia clavate, stipe very slender; viscidium linear-lanceolate; stigma broadly tiangular; rostellum triangular- lanceolate.

分布

• 台灣 : forests at low elevations throughout the island.
• 世界 : The Ryukyus and probably the Philippines.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Shihlin, Shimada. s. n. Jan 1916; Wulai, Su 8497. NANTOU: Singyi, Leou 3913; Chushan, Leou 4082. KAOHSIUNG: Wanshan, Su 8949. PINGTUNG: Hengchun, Leou 3367; Kengtin, Leou 4140. TAITUNG: Tzebun, Leou 4044. HUALIEN: Kuanyin, Leou 3811.

參考文獻

• SU, Horng-Jye, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 1058. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)