蛇舌兰（香港植物名录）
倒吊兰（台湾兰科植物彩色图鉴）
黄吊兰（台湾兰）
Diploprora championii (Lindl.) Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 6: 26. 1890, et in Hook., Icon. Pl. 2: t. 2120. 1892; King et Pantl. in Ann. Bot. Gard. Calcutta 8: 205, pl. 274. 1898; S. Y. Hu in Quart. J. Taiwan Mus. 26 (3, 4): 375. 1973; 中国高等植物图鉴 5: 754. 图8338. 1976; 海南植物志 4: 253. 图1126. 1977; 台湾兰科植物 2: 135-137 (图). 1977; 台湾兰科植物彩色图鉴 1: 159. 图55. 1977; S. Y. Hu, Gen. Orch. Hong Kong: 104. 1977; 台湾植物志 5: 975. 图1587. 1978; Seidenf. in Opera Bot. 95: 39, fig. 20. 1988, et l. c. 114: 356. 1992; Averyanov, Iden. Guide Vietnam. Orch.: 400. 1994; Z. H. Tsi et S. C. Chen in Acta Phytotax. Sin. 33 (3): 292. 1995; 福建植物志6: 675.图604. 1995; 台湾兰科植物彩色图志1: 403-405. 1996. ——Cottonia championii Lindl. in J. Bot. Kew (Misc.) 7: 35. 1855. ——Diploprora kusukuensis Hayata, Icon. Pl. Formos. 4: 86, fig. 42. 1914.——D. uraiensis Hayata, l. c. 4: 87, fig. 43. 1914. ——D. bicaudata (Thw.) Schltr. in Fedde Repert. Sp. Nov. Beih. 4: 281. 1919.——Stauropsis championii (Lindl.) T. Tang et F. T. Wang in Acta Phytotax. 1 (1): 93. 1951.——S. kusukusensis (Hayata) T. Tang et F. T. Wang, l. c. 1 (1): 93. 1951.
Epiphytic on tree trunks in forests or lithophytic on rocks along valleys; 200-1500 m. S Fujian, Guangxi, Hong Kong, Taiwan, S and SE Yunnan [India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam]. |
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Stems often pendulous, 3-15 cm or longer, ca. 4 mm in diam., rigid, usually unbranched, internodes 1-1.5 cm. |
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Leaf sessile, falcate-lanceolate or obliquely oblong, 5-12 × 1.6-2.7 cm, papery, jointed, margin sometimes slightly undulate, apex acute to apiculate. |
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Inflorescences laxly 4-8-flowered; peduncle 1.5-2.8 cm, sheathed at base, glabrous; rachis ca. 3.5 cm, winged, weakly zigzag; floral bracts ovate-triangular, 3-4 mm, acute. Flowers fragrant, pale yellow, with white-rosy lip, ca. 1 cm in diam., slightly fleshy; pedicel and ovary ca. 8 mm. Sepals oblong or elliptic, ca. 9 × 4 mm, dorsally carinate, apex obtuse. Petals linear-oblong, ca. 8 × 2 mm, acute; lip sigmoidally curved, 5-8 × 3-4 mm, adnate to base and sides of column; hypochile erect, cymbiform, ca. 5 × 4 mm, edges recurved; epichile broadly triangular at base, narrowed abruptly to a bicaudate apex; disk with an erect keel. |
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Column ca. 3 mm, broad, foot absent. Capsule cylindric, ca. 4 cm × 8-10 mm. Fl. and fr. Feb-Sep. 2n = 16, 38. | ||
