麻栗坡蝴蝶兰Phalaenopeis malipoensis Z.J.Liu&S.C.Chen
Epiphytic on trees in sparse forests and on forest margins; 600-1300 m. S Yunnan (Lincang, Malipo). This species is similar to Phalaenopsis labralis. The difference is that the inflorescence axis of this species is not left and right, and the tip of the lip is obviously shouldered. |
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Inflorescences 3 or 4, arising from base of stem, racemose, 8-15 cm, laxly 3- or 4-flowered; peduncle green, with 2-4 membranous sheaths; rachis straight; floral bracts yellow-green, triangular-lanceolate, 2-4 mm, acuminate. Flowers 1.2-1.6 cm in diam., sepals and petals white, sometimes tinged yellowish, lip white and orange or orange-yellow, tinged brownish on disk and central part of mid-lobe, column white with 1 or 2 crescent-shaped or semiorbicular brown markings at base in front; pedicel and ovary white tinged pale green, 1-1.3 cm. Dorsal sepal oblong-elliptic, 7-9 × 3-4 mm, obtuse; lateral sepals obliquely ovate-elliptic, 6-7 mm, 4-5 mm wide at base, base adnate to column foot, sometimes dorsally carinate. Petals spatulate or narrowly obovate, 6-8 × 2-3 mm, rounded; lip 3-lobed; lateral lobes erect, subparallel, diverging in middle to form a U-shaped compound structure, sublanceolate, 2-3 mm, with 2 orange and brownish tinged calli on disk in between; mid-lobe mobile, broadly triangular, 4-5 × 6-7 mm, 3-lobulate; basal callus deeply forked, with a crested crescent-shaped appendage transversely lying near middle, each arm of callus dividing into 2 filiform-linear antennae to 3 mm. Column 4-5 mm, foot 1-2 mm. Fl. Apr-May. |
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