丽江杓兰（中国兰花全书）
Cypripedium lichiangense S. C. Chen et Cribb in Orch. Rev. 102(1200): 321. 1994; Cribb in Bull. Alp. Gard. Soc. Brit. 63(4): 47. 1994, et Genus Cypripedium 262, fig. 49. pl. 78, 79. 1997;中国兰花全书111. 1998.——Cypripedium daliense auct. non S. C. Chen et J. L. Wu: Cribb in Bull. Alp. Gard. Soc. Brit. 62(2): 170, 171(fig. ). 1992.
Sparse thickets, open forests; 2600-3500 m. SW Sichuan, NW Yunnan. |
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Plants 7-14 cm tall, with a stout, rather short rhizome. Stem erect, 3-7 cm, covered by 2 tubular sheaths, apex with a subopposite leaf and bract prostrate on substrate. |
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Leaf blade dark green, marked with purplish black spots, ovate or obovate to orbicular, 8.5-19 × 7-16 cm, margin sometimes purplish, apex obtuse or mucronate. |
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Inflorescence terminal, with 1 flower, ebracteate; pedicel 4-7 cm, glabrous; ovary 1.2-1.8 cm, glabrous. Flower rather large; sepals and staminode liver-colored; petals and lip yellow spotted with maroon. Dorsal sepal ovate or broadly ovate, 4.2-7 × 3.8-6 cm, both surfaces glabrous, ciliate, apex acute; synsepal elliptic, 3.5-5.6 × 2-3.6 cm, ciliate, with 2 teeth at apex. Petals incurved forward, enfolding lip, obliquely oblong, 4-6.5 × 1.4-2.1 cm, abaxially pubescent on upper side, ciliate, apex acute; lip pouched, subellipsoid, dorsiventrally flattened, 3.3-4 cm, papillate on front surface. Staminode suboblong, 1.3-1.5 cm, adaxially papillate. Fl. May-Jul. |
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