卷萼兜兰（中国高等植物图鉴）
Paphiopedilum appletonianum (Gower) Rolfe in Orch. Rev. 4: 364. 1896; Pfitz. in Engler, Pflanzenreich IV (50) Heft 12: 79. 1903;中国高等植物图鉴5: 609.图8047. 1976; 海南植物志4: 190.图1082. 1977; Karasawa, Genus Paphiopedilum 162, 163 (fig. ) . 1982; Cribb, Genus Paphiopedilum 162. 1987; Braem, Paphiopedilum 149. 1988; Seidenf. in Opera Bot. 114: 19. 1992; G. H. Tsi, S. C. Chen et K. Mori, Wild Orch. China 29. 1997;中国兰花全书118.图6-4 (4) . 彩图6-8. 1998, "applectonianum". ——Cypripedium appletonianum Gower in The Garden 1893: 95. 1893.——Cypripedium bullenianum Rchb. f. var. appletonianum (Gower) Rolfe in Orch. Rev. 1: 135. 1893. ——Cordula appletonianum (Gower) Rolfe in Orch. Rev. 20 (1) : 2. 1912. ——Paphiopedilum hainanense Fowlie in Orch. Dig. 51: 69. 1987, "hainanensis".
| Hainan ( East, Thanksgiving, Lingshui, Dingan ) and southern Guangxi. Born at an altitude of 300-1200 meters under the forest shade wet ; humus on soil or rock. Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand are also distributed. The type specimen was collected from Thailand. | |
Plants terrestrial or lithophytic. Leaves 7 or 8, distichous; blade pale green and often marked with purple toward base abaxially, distinctly or sometimes obscurely tessellated with dark and light green adaxially, narrowly elliptic or suboblong, 9-20(-25) × 1.5-3.5(-4) cm, bilobulate or tridenticulate at acute apex. |
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Scape erect, terminating in 1 or very rarely 2 flowers; peduncle purple, 20-60 cm, white pubescent; floral bract green, ovate-lanceolate, 1.5-2.6 cm, abaxially puberulent especially in basal half, ciliate, acuminate at apex; pedicel and ovary 4-7 cm, pubescent. Flower 6-8(-10) cm in diam.; dorsal sepal and synsepal greenish or whitish green, with green veins; dorsal sepal with brown-purple stripes at base; petals greenish at base, turning to a rose-red or dull pink toward apex, with scattered dark brown spots or sometimes green-brown stripes in basal half; lip olive-green, rose-red, or purplish, with a green or pale green-yellow margin; staminode dull yellowish with a green center. Dorsal sepal ovate or broadly ovate, 3.5-4 × 2-3 cm, abaxially puberulent on veins and margin, minutely ciliate, acute at apex; synsepal elliptic-lanceolate, 2-3 × 1-1.5 cm, abaxially puberulent on veins, minutely ciliate, acuminate at apex. Petals spatulate, 4-6 × 1.3-2 cm, with blackish brown warts along upper margin and sometimes fewer along lower margin in basal half, often half-twisted in apical half; lip helmet-shaped, 3.5-4.5 cm; pouch 2-3 × 1.5-2.5 cm, apical margin with a deep incisure centrally with usually 1-3 teeth on either side. Staminode broadly obcordate, lunate, or transversely elliptic-oblong, mucronate or with 2-5 teeth at apex.
Flowering January-May. |
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