生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Stems 3-5 cm long, enclosed by leaf sheaths.
• Leaves equitant, distichous, ensiform, variable in length, largest ones to 9 cm long, 5 mm wide near base, apex acuminate, slightly curved, continuous to sheath without articulation.
• Raceme ca. 10 cm long, cylindrical; bracts oblong, 1.5 mm long, upper margin erose; pedicel and ovary 1-1.3 mm long. Flowers in whorls, 2-3 mm apart, greenish or tinged with red-orange, not resupinate, 2 mm across; dorsal sepal ovate-elliptic, 0.9 mm long, 0.6-0.7 mm wide, obtuse at apex; lateral sepals obliquely ovate, 0.9 mm long, 0.7 mm wide, obtuse at apex; petals rhombic- elliptic, 0.8 mm long, distinctly erose, obtuse at apex, cuneate at base; lip 3-lobed, 0.8-0.9 mm long, 0.7 mm wide, lateral lobes falcate-rectangular, 0.4 mm long, erose on external margins, base extending backward and surrounding column, central lobe rectangular, 0.4 mm long, apex truncate, retuse, margin irregularly serrate; column ca. 0.3 mm long, with 2 short arms near apex; anther white, 0.1 mm long, pollinia 0.1 mm long; stigma a large cavity on ventral side of column.
• Capsules ellipsoid, 2.5 mm long. Seed spindle-shaped, 0.1 mm long.

分布

• 台灣 : evergreen hardwoods along streams in the Nanjenshan area, Hengchun Peninsula.
• 世界 : Vietnam and the Malay Peninsula.

引證標本

PINGTUNG: Luliaochi, Su 7020, 7880*.

參考文獻

• SU, Horng-Jye. 2000. Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 984. (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)