虎舌兰（中国高等植物图鉴）
Epipogium roseum (D. Don) Lindl. in J. Linn. Soc. Bot. 1: 177. 1857; Merrill in Lingn. Sci. J. 5: 53. 1928; Tuyama in J. Jap. Bot. 42: 295. 1967; Garay et Sweet, Orch. South. Ryukyu Isl. 58. fig. 3 (i). 1974;中国高等植物图鉴5: 656.图8141. 1976; 台湾兰科植物2: 148——150 (图). 1977; 台湾兰科植物彩色图鉴1: 450. 1977, et 2: 499. 1990; 台湾植物志5: 980. 1978; Seidenf. in Dansk Bot. Ark. 32 (2): 171. fig. 106. 1978, et in Opera Bot. 114: 76. 1992; 海南植物志4: 196. 图1087. 1987; Barretto in Mem. Hong Kong Nat. Hist. Soc. 18: 47. fig. 1. 1988; 横断山区维管植物2: 2557. 1994; Z. H. Tsi et S. C. Chen in Acta Phytotax. Sin. 33(3): 292. 1995. ——Limodorum roseum D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 30. 1825. ——Galera nutans Bl., Bijdr. 8: 416. 1825. ——Epipogium nutans (Bl.) Rchb. f. in Bonplandia 5: 36. 1857. ——Epipogium japonicum Makino in Bot. Mag. Tokyo 18: 131. 1904. ——Galera japonica (Makino) Makino in Bot. Mag. Tokyo 25: 228. 1911. ——Galera rolfei Hayata in J. Coll. Sci. Univ. Tokyo 30: 348. 1911. ——Epipogium rolfei (Hayata) Schltr. in Fedde Repert. Sp. Nov. 10: 5. 1911. ——Galera kusukusensis Hayata, Icon. Pl. Formos. 4: 121. Pl. 20. 1914. ——Epipogium kusukusense (Hayata) Schltr. in Fedde Repert. Sp. Nov. Beih. 4: 153. 1919. ——Epipogium sinicum C. L. Tso in Sunyatsenia 1: 132. 1933.
Moist broad-leaved forests, shady places along valleys; 500-1600 m. Guangdong, Hainan, C and S Taiwan, SE Xizang, S Yunnan [India, Indonesia, Japa
According to Lang Kaiyong, he saw such specimens in the Wolong Nature Reserve in Wenchuan, Sichuan ( Qin Zisheng ), but from the perspective of plant geography, the interval is very far, and the altitude is 2500 meters, it seems impossible. Further research is needed. |
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Plants 10-45 cm tall. Rhizome tuberous, narrowly fusiform to ovoid, 1-5 cm, 0.5-2 cm in diam., many noded. Stem with 1-8 scattered sheaths, white, sometimes tinged pale pink; sheaths amplexicaul, white, 7-13 mm, membranous. |
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Rachis laxly to subdensely 2-16-flowered, sometimes pendulous toward apex; floral bracts ovate-lanceolate, 7-12 × 4-7 mm. Flowers resupinate, pendulous, opening widely or not, white with faint purple spots on lip; pedicel 3-7 mm; ovary 5-7 mm. Sepals weakly spreading, linear-lanceolate, 8-11 × 2-3 mm, 3-veined, margin undulate, apex subacute. Petals similar to sepals, weakly spreading, often slightly shorter and wider than sepals, slightly oblique, 7-10 × 2-3 mm, apex acute to acuminate; lip elliptic-ovate when flattened, concave, 8-12 × 6-7 mm, spurred at base, entire, margins erose-denticulate; disk with 2 longitudinal densely papillose ridges, and occasionally with a shorter central ridge, or ridges sometimes reduced and inconspicuous; spur projecting backward, nearly parallel to ovary, cylindric, 3-5 × 1.5-2.5 mm, shorter than ovary, apex obtuse. Column 2.5-4.5 mm; anther subglobose. Capsule broadly ovoid-ellipsoid, 5-7 × ca. 5 mm. Fl. and fr. Apr-Sep. |
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