雅致杓兰
Cypripedium elegans Rchb. f. in Flora 69: 561. 1886; Franch. in J. Bot. (Morot) 8: 255.1894; King & Pantl. in Ann. Bot. Gard. Calcutta 8: 341, pl. 446. 1898; Hand.-M azz., Symb. Sinic. 7: 1324. 1936 ; K. Y. Lang in Z. Y. Wu (ed.), Fl. Xizang. 5: 657. 1987; S.C. Chen & Y. Z. Xi in Proc. 12th World Oreb. Conf. : 145. 1987; P. J. Cri bb, Genus Cypripedium: 245, fig. 44, pl. 53. 1997; S. C. Chen & Z. H. Tsi, Orc h. China: 108 . 199 7; S. C. Chen, Z. H. Tsi & Y. B. L uo, Native Oreb. China Colour: 127. I 999 ;S. C. Chen in K. Y. Lang (ed.), Flora Reipubl. Popul. Sin. 17: 46. 1999; Eccariu s,Orchideengattung Cypripedium: 230, Abb. 230-233. 2009; S. C. Chen & P. J. Cribb in Z. Y. Wu et al. (eds.), Flora of China 25: 30. 2009. Type: China, Xizang, Kang Me (probably now Kang Ma County in southern Xizang), Chinese collector in King 54 (holotype, K; iso type, W).
Humus-rich soils in forests, forest margins, thickets; 3600-3700 m. S and SE Xizang, NW Yunnan [Bhutan, N India, Nepal]. |
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Plants 10-15 cm tall, with a slender, creeping rhizome. Stem erect, densely villous, with 2 tubular sheaths at base and 2 leaves at apex. |
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Leaves spreading horizontally, opposite or subopposite; blade ovate or broadly ovate, 4-5 × 3-3.5 cm, herbaceous, both surfaces sparsely pubescent or rarely glabrous, long ciliate, with 3(-5) prominent veins raised abaxially, apex obtuse. |
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Inflorescence terminal, suberect, with 1 flower; peduncle 2-4 cm, villous; floral bracts ovate, 1.5-2 × 0.6-0.8 cm, slightly shortly hairy; pedicel and ovary 4-5 mm, hairy along longitudinal ridges. Flower small; sepals and petals yellowish green, adaxially with purplish red stripes; lip yellowish green to nearly white, with 3 purplish red warty stripes at front. Dorsal sepal elliptic-ovate, 1.5-2 × 0.6-1 cm, glabrous, apex acute; synsepal similar to dorsal sepal, apex shallowly 2-lobed. Petals lanceolate, 1.5-2 × 0.4-0.5 cm, glabrous, apex subacute; lip pouched, subglobose, ca. 1 cm, often upturned at apex with its mouth hidden. Staminode transversely elliptic, small, ca. 1.5 × 2 mm, base with a short stalk. Fl. May-Jul. |
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