• Scientific Name: Crepidium acuminatum (D.Don) Szlach.
• Ref: Fragm. Florist. Geobot., Suppl. 3:123. 1995
• Synonyms:
  • Corymborkis acuminata (D.Don) M.R.Almeida
  • Malaxis acuminata D.Don
  • M. allanii S.Y.Hu & Barretto
  • M. biloba (Lindl.) Ames
  • M. pierrei (Finet) Tang & F.T.Wang
  • M. siamensis (Rolfe ex Downie) Seidenf. & Smitinand
  • M. wallichii (Lindl.) Deb
  • Microstylis biloba Lindl.
  • M. pierrei Finet
  • M. siamensis Rolfe ex Downie
  • M. trigonocardia Schltr.
  • M. wallichii Lindl.
• Chinese Common Name: 浅裂沼兰 qiǎnliè zhǎolán
• Family: Orchidaceae
• Genus: Crepidium
• Distribution: Forests, shaded rocks along valleys; 300-2100 m. Guangdong, SW Guizhou, ?Taiwan, SE Xizang, S Yunnan [Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam; Australia].
• Photo: Jingning, Zhejiang

Plants terrestrial, sometimes epiphytic. Stem cylindric, (1.5-)4-7 cm, 4-6 mm in diam., fleshy, with several nodes, mostly enclosed in sheath. Leaves 3-5, obliquely ovate, ovate-oblong, or subelliptic, (4-)6-12 × 2.5-6 cm, base contracted into a sheathlike, amplexicaul petiole 2-4 cm, apex acuminate. Inflorescence erect; peduncle 12-43 cm, wingless; rachis 3-9(-16) cm, 10- or more flowered; floral bracts lanceolate, 3-4(-6) mm. Flowers purplish red, ca. 1.5 cm in diam.; pedicel and ovary 7-10 mm. Dorsal sepal narrowly oblong or broadly linear, 8-9 × ca. 2 mm, 3-veined, margin revolute, apex obtuse; lateral sepals oblong, 6-7 × 3-3.5 mm, margin revolute, apex obtuse. Petals narrowly linear, 8-9 × ca. 0.8 mm, margin revolute; lip superior, ovate-oblong or obovate-oblong in outline, 10-11 × 6-7 mm, shallowly 2-lobed, with a sinus 1(-2) mm deep, with a pair of auricles decurrent backward embracing column, adaxially with a central groove in apical half; auricles ± narrowly ovate, 1/5-2/5 length of lip. Column 1-1.5 mm, stout. Capsule obovoid-oblong, ca. 1.8 × 1 cm; fruiting pedicel ca. 7 mm. Fl. and fr. May-Jul. 2n = 30, 36, 42. (Flora of China)