Cephalanthera alpicola Fukuyama, Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 52: 242. 1938. 高山头蕊兰 gao shan tou rui lan Cephalanthera taiwaniana S. S. Ying.

 Plants leafy, autotrophic, 15–45 cm tall. Stem slender, with several basal sheaths, 5–8-leaved. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate to sublanceolate, 4–10 × 0.6–2.5 cm, base slightly contracted, apex acuminate. Inflorescence laxly 3–14-flowered; rachis 6–14cm; basal floral bract linear-lanceolate and slightly exceeding ovary, distal ones subtriangular, 3–5 mm. Flowers suberect, weakly spreading or remaining closed, white; pedicel and ovary 10–17 mm. Sepals narrowly elliptic to suboblong, 10–15 × 3–5 mm, apex acute. Petals elliptic to sublanceolate, 8–12 × 3–4.5 mm, apex acute; lip 7–12 mm, 2-partite; hypochile shallowly saccate, enclosed within bases of lateral sepals; hypochile lobes erect to spreading, obliquely triangular-ovate, apex obtuse; epichile broadly ovate to ovate-suborbicular, 3–6 × 5–6 mm, with 3–5 irregularly papillate, brownish lamellae. Column erect, 5–7 mm, with 2 small wings; anther ovoid, 2–3 mm. Capsule cylindric, 2–3 cm. Fl. May–Aug. 

 ● Dry open Pinus forests, alpine meadows; 2000–3000 m. C and N Taiwan.