旗唇兰Kuhlhasseltia yakushimensis

  • Scientific Name: Kuhlhasseltia yakushimensis (Yamamoto) Ormerod
  • Ref: Lindleyana. 17: 209. 2002.
  • Synonyms: Anoectochilus yakushimensis Yamamoto, Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 38: 131. 1924;
    Cystopus humilis Fukuyama;
    Kuhlhasseltia integra (Fukuyama) T. C. Hsu & S. W. Chung;
    Pristiglottis humilis (Fukuyama) Fukuyama;
    P. integra Fukuyama;
    P. yakushimensis (Yamamoto) Masamune;
    Vexillabium humilum (Fukuyama) S. S. Ying;
    V. integrum (Fukuyama) S. S. Ying;
    V. yakushimense (Yamamoto) F. Maekawa.
  • Chinese Common Name: 旗唇兰 qi chun lan
  • Japanese Common Name: Yakushima-hime-aridoshi-ran, ヤクシマヒメアリドオシラン, 屋久島姫蟻通蘭
  • Family: Orchidaceae
  • Genus: Kuhlhasseltia
  • Distribution:Forests, rocky crevices, along streams; 400-1600 m. Anhui, Hunan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Zhejiang [Japan, Philippines].
  • Type: Anoectochilus yakushimensis Yamam., Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 38: 131 (1924). Japan, Yakushima(屋久岛), 1922-08, A.Kimura s.n.(Holotype:?)
 Plants 8-15 cm tall. Rhizome branching, pubescent. Stem ascending, green. Leaves subrosulate at base of stem or spaced along stem, green, tinged with reddish purple, ovate, 0.8-5 × 0.6-2.5 cm, fleshy, 3-veined, base rounded, margin sometimes minutely toothed, apex acute; petiole-like base 5-15 mm. Inflorescence often purplish red, 4-8 cm, white pubescent, with 1-3 pinkish red sterile bracts; rachis pinkish, 1.5-4.5 cm, 2-7-flowered, sparsely pubescent; floral bracts purplish red, broadly lanceolate, 5-6 mm, abaxially sparsely pubescent, margin ciliate, apex acuminate. Flowers small; ovary slightly curved, cylindric-fusiform, 7-8 mm including pedicel, glabrous to pubescent. Sepals green at base, whitish pink toward apex; dorsal sepal shortly connate to lateral sepals at base, erect, oblong-ovate, concave, 3.5-4.5 mm, 1-veined, apex obtuse; lateral sepals oblong, falcate, 5-6 × ca. 2 mm, 1-veined, apex obtuse. Petals ovate, falcate, 4-5 × 1.5-2.5 mm, apex obtuse-apiculate; lip white, ca. 8 mm; hypochile saccate, containing 2 appendages; mesochile with 2 usually dentate flanges; epichile divergently 2-lobed, 3-4 × 4.5-5 mm. Column 2-3 mm; anther cordate, ca. 1.4 mm, apex acuminate; pollinia obovoid, attached to triangular viscidium; rostellum erect, furcately 2-lobed, lobes unequal in size. Fl. Aug-Sep. 2n = 26.(Flora of China)

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