龙头兰(中国高等植物图鉴)
鹅毛白蝶花(海南植物志)
白蝶兰(中国兰花全书)
Pecteilis susannae (L.) Rafin. , Flor. Tellur. 2: 38. 1836, ‘Susanna’; Hand.-Mazz. , Symb. Sin. 7: 1333. 1936; 中国高等植物图鉴5: 632, 图8094. 1976; 海南植物志4: 191. 1977; H. Hara et al., Enum. Flow. Pl. Nepal 1: 52. 1978;横断山区维管植物2: 2537. 1994.——Orchis susannae L. , SPp. Pl. ed. 1. 939. 1573.——Habenaria susannae (L. )R. Br. , Prodr. Fl. Nepal 312. 1819. ——Habenaria susannae(L. )Bl. Bijdr. Fl. Nederl. Ind. 8: 402. 1825.——Platanthera susannae(L. )Lindl. , Gen. Sp. Orch. Pl. 295. 1835.——Hemihabenaria susannae(L. )Finet in Rev. Gen. Bot. 13: 532. 1901.
Forests, grassy slopes, damp places in valleys; 500-2500 m. Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Jiangxi, SW Sichuan, Yunnan [Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, S Vietnam]. | |
Plants robust, 45-120 cm tall. Tubers ovoid-cylindric, 3-6 × 1-2.5 cm. Stem stout, with several tubular sheaths at base and several to many leaves intergrading into amplexicaul sterile bracts above | |
Leaves ovate, oblong, or lanceolate, 6-10(-12) × 3-6 cm, apex acute. Sterile bracts often foliaceous, ovate-elliptic to lanceolate, 4-7 × 1-3.5 cm, apex acuminate. Rachis 6-15 cm, laxly 2-5-flowered; floral bracts foliaceous, lanceolate, 3-5 cm, shorter than, equal to, or slightly exceeding ovary, apex acute to acuminate. | |
Flowers fragrant, white, large; pedicel and ovary 40-60 mm, shallowly winged, glabrous. Dorsal sepal erect, broadly ovate to orbicular, 25-30 × 20-28 mm, apex obtuse-rounded; lateral sepals spreading, broadly ovate, slightly oblique, 25-40 × 12-22 mm, usually slightly longer than dorsal sepal, apex obtuse. Petals linear-lanceolate, 7-12 × ca. 2.5 mm; lip irregularly ovate, 25-40 × 25-44 cm; lateral lobes broad, subflabellate, 16-22 × 18-24 mm, lateral margins entire, apical margin lacerate-fimbriate; mid-lobe linear-oblong, 18-30 × 4-6 mm, slightly fleshy, entire; spur straight to gradually curved forward, 6-13 cm × 3-5 mm, apex acute. Fl. Jul-Sep. 2n = 36, 42, 44. | |