低地羊耳蒜 Liparis formosana (寶島羊耳蒜)
Small to medium sympodial terrestrial herb.Plants In clumps, 12-25 cm tall. Stems cylindrical or clavate, 5-16 cm long, 1-1.5 cm in diameter, fleshy, leafy on terminal part. Leaves 2 to 4 closely arranged in a rosette obliquely elliptic or ovate, 7-15 cm long, 4-12 cm wide, chartaceous, plicate, green, lustrous Inflorescences arising from terminal of stem,erect or ascending, 20-40 cm long, whitish green to reddish purple. Flowers 15 to 60 arranged in a long raceme, opening widely, natural spread 1-1.7 cm across, basicall purplish red, some more or less tinted with green, column whitish green; dorsal sepal lanceolate, lateral sepals ovate-oblong petals Inear; lip obovate, reflexed downward on terminal half emarginate at apex.
Flowering period:March to May
Broad-leaved forests; 300-500 m. Hong Kong, Taiwan [Japan]. | ||
Herbs, terrestrial. Pseudobulbs clustered, cylindric, 5-15 × 1-1.5 cm. Leaves 2-4, obliquely elliptic to ovate, 7-12 × 4-6 cm, acute. Inflorescence ca. 30 cm; | ||
peduncle ca. 15 cm, winged; rachis ca. 15 cm, 15-30-flowered; floral bracts triangular, 2-3 mm, apex acute. Flowers green, tinged with purple or purplish; pedicel and ovary 11-14 mm, with 6 sharp ridges. Dorsal sepal lanceolate, 10-12 × 2-2.5 mm, 3-veined, apex obtuse; lateral sepals obliquely oblong-lanceolate, 7-9 × 3-4 mm, 3-veined, apex acute. Petals linear, 9-10 × ca. 1 mm, 1-veined; lip obovate-elliptic, ca. 7 × 5 mm, above base with a bilobed erect callus, apex acute. Column curved, 4-5 mm, apex with 2 triangular, basally truncate wings. Fl. Feb-May.
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