Amitostigma lepidum (Rchb.f.) Schltr. 1919 Photo courtesy of KENPEI Copyright ©, and the Wikimedia Amitostigm Genus Page

Full Shade Cool Cold

Common Name or Meaning The Beautiful Amitostigma - In Japan - Okinawa-chidori - Ryukyu-chidori and Okinawa-hina-ran

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in the Ryukyu Islands and Japan in fields as a small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a small, ovoid tuber giving rise to a slender stem carrying 2 to 3, usually basal, occasionally with one cauline, rather thin, linear-oblanceolate, to narrowly obovate-oblong, acute, tapering to a subpetiolate base leaves blooming on a laxly few flowered, racemose inflorescence with broadly lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts.

Synonyms *Gymnadenia lepida Rchb.f. 1878; Orchis lepida (Rchb.f.) Soó 1929

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1878 as Gymnadenia lepida; Orchids of Southern Ryukyu Islands Garay & Sweet 1974 drawing fide

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