彩云兜兰（中国兰花）
Paphiopedilum wardii Summerh. in Gard. Chron. ser. 3, 92: 446. fig. 218. 1932, et in Curtis's Bot. Mag. 160: t. 9481. 1937; Karasawa et Saito in Bull. Hiroshima Bot. Gard. 5: 60. 1982; Cribb, Genus Paphiopedilum 209. 1987; Braem. Paphiopedilum 185. 1988, pro hybr. ; Z. H. Tsi, S. C. Chen et K. Mori, Wild Orch. China 29. pl. 25. 1997, pro hybr.; 中国兰花全书126.图6-4 (5) . 彩图6-22. 1998. ——Cypripediumwardii (Summerh. ) C. Curtis in Orch. Rev. 41: 2, 9 (fig. ) . 1933.
Shaded and steep rocks or near roots of large trees at forest margins or in forests along streams (1-3 m from water); ca. 2000 m. SW Yunnan (Lushui) [Myanmar].
此种是否杂种至今仍无确切的证据，故暂不作为杂种处理。 |
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Plants terrestrial. |
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Plants terrestrial. Leaves 2-5, distichous; blade abaxially rather densely mottled with purple, adaxially tessellated with light or bluish and dark green, oblong or elliptic, 8-23 × 2.5-4.1 cm, sparsely ciliate toward basal margin, slightly bilobulate or tridenticulate at acute apex. |
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Scape erect, terminating in a solitary flower; peduncle purple-red, 15-40 cm, pubescent; floral bract ovate-lanceolate, conduplicate, 1.8-2.3 cm, abaxially pubescent, ciliate; pedicel and ovary 4-5.5 cm, pubescent. Flower 7-10 cm in diam.; dorsal sepal and synsepal white or whitish green, veined with deep green; petals greenish white, flushed with purplish brown and spotted throughout with blackish brown; lip greenish to pale yellow-brown, veined and finely spotted with brown; staminode greenish marbled, deep green centrally. Dorsal sepal ovate, 3-4.5 × 2-3.5 cm, both surfaces puberulent particularly on veins, ciliate, acuminate at apex; synsepal ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, 3.5-4.5 × 1.4-2.5 cm, both surfaces puberulent, ciliate, acute or acuminate at apex. Petals usually spreading horizontally, suboblong or oblong-lanceolate, 4.5-6 × 1.5-2 cm, adaxially minutely puberulent particularly in basal half, long ciliate, shortly acuminate at apex; lip helmet-shaped, 3.4-4.6 cm, warty on incurved lateral lobes; pouch 2.2-2.5 × 2-2.4 cm, outside slightly puberulent. Staminode obcordate-lunate, 9-10 × 13-15 mm, puberulent adaxially, apical sinus with a small central tooth and 2 incurved lateral teeth. Fl. Dec-Mar. 2n = 41, 44. |
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