银带虾脊兰(中国野生兰彩色图谱)
Calanthe argenteo-striata C. Z. Tang et S. J. Cheng in Orch. Rev. 89: 144. fig. 1891: Z. H. Tsi, S. C. Chen et K. Mori, Wild Orch. China 50, pl. 51. 1997; 中国兰花全书132. 1998.
Born at an altitude of 500 - 1200 meters under the hillside forest rock voids or covered limestone surface.
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Stem : Plant has no obvious rhizome. Pseudobulbs short, subconical, ca. 1. 5 cm thick, with 2-3 sheaths and 3-7 leaves spreading out during flowering. | ||
Leaves : Dark green above leaf, with 5-6 silver-gray bands, elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, 18-27 cm long, 5-11 cm wide, apex acute, base constricted to handle ca. 3-4 cm long, glabrous or slightly pubescent abaxially. | ||
Flowers : Scape extracted from the center of leaf cluster, 60 cm long, densely short-haired, with 3-4 tubular sheaths ; raceme 7-11 cm long, with more than 10 flowers ; the bracts are broadly ovate, about 1.5 cm long, apex acute, back hairy ; pedicels and ovaries yellowish green, ca. 3 cm long ; flowers open ; 14 slices and petals how many folds, yellowish green ; middle sepals elliptic, 9 mm long, 4.5 mm wide, apex obtuse and with short awn, with 5 veins, back covered with short hair ; lateral sepals broadly ovate-elliptic, 10 mm long, 5.5 mm wide, apex obtuse and short awned, with 5 veins, abaxially shortly hairy ; petals subspatulate or obovate, slightly smaller than sepals, apex subtruncate and shortly convex, with 3 veins, glabrous ; the lip is white, connate with the whole stamen column wing, longer than the sepal, with 3 rows of golden yellow nodules at the base, 3 lobes ; lateral lobes nearly axe-shaped, 7mm long and wide, apex nearly round ; middle lobe deep 2-lobed ; small lobes equal to lateral lobes ; yellowish green, thinly cylindrical, 1. 5-1. 9 cm long, narrowed to the end, outside sparsely covered with short hairs ; stamen column white, about 5 mm long ; calyx 2 - lobed, yoke-shaped ; medicine cap white, front end narrow, tip beak shape ; pollen masses narrowly obovoid or narrowly clavate, subequal, ca. 2 mm long, with short pedicel of pollen mass, approximatively squared disc.
Flowering : April-May.
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