心叶带唇兰Tainia cordifolia
- Scientific Name: Tainia cordifolia Hook. f.
- Ref: Icon. Pl. 19. pl. 1861. 1889.
- Synonyms: Mischobulbum cordifolium(Hook. f.) Schltr.;
Tainia fauriei Schltr. - Chinese Common Name: 心叶带唇兰xin ye dai chun lan; 葵兰;心叶球柄兰
- Family: Orchidaceae
- Genus: Tainia
- Distribution: Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hongkong, Taiwan, Yunnan
- Type: HAB. Formosa; at Kelung, C. Ford.
Terrestrial plant. Rhizome short, 3-4 mm in diam., repent. Pseudobulb absent. Leaves solitary; leaf-blade cordate,fteshy, ca. 10 x 7 cm, acute, pale-green, marked with deep-green blotches and sometimes veins also showing deepgreen,pale-green beneath; petiole elongated-clavate or nearly cylindrical, curved, ca. 9 cm long, dull-green, ascending. Flowering stems to 25 cm long, arising at base of petiole; peduncle terete, dull-brown, with 2- 3 long sheath-bracts;raceme 5- 7 cm long, 4-8-flowered. Floral bracts lanceolate, 8 mm long. Pedicel and ovary 1.2 cm long, dull-brown. Flowers large and showy, 4 cm across; sepals and petals greenish-brown with distinct dark-purplish-brown veins; sepals lanceolate, 23 x 4.5-5 mm; lateral ones obJique, expanded at base, connate at base to column-foot; petals 2.2 x 0.8 cm,ovate-lanceolate. Lip somewhat ovate, whitish, flushed with yellow toward apex, with red spots or short striations on lower half, 2.5 x 2 cm, basal part erect, distal part reflexed, hinged at base to column-foot, movable, 3-lobed; 1 atera 1 lobes erect, white, semi-orbicular, with scattered rose spots; midlobe deltoid, 11 x 9 mm, recurved; disc with 3 yellow ridges, median one longer but lower and smaJler, lateral ones wavy, inclined and meeting near base. Column 7.5-9.5x 5 mm, compressed, with rose dots/striations on both sides, narrowing at apex; column-foot long, ca. 1.3 cm, curved.Rostellum broad, triangular or semicircular, recurved. Stigmatic surface broad, transversely oblong, depressed. Anthercap deltoid, with flattened process or wing on both sides, 3-4 mm wide, greenish; pollinia 8, in 2 groups, laterally flattened, yellowish, connected at base by a large, thin, amorphous spongy-like tissue, stipe and viscidium absent(The Orchid Flora of Taiwan: A Collection of Line Drawings)