Cheirostylis lidaoensis S.S.Ying 2024
Photos by S S Ying and NEW TAXA & NEW NAMES, vol 7-part two Website
Common Name or Meaning The Lidao Cheirostylis
Flower Size .12 to .16" [3 to 4 mm]
Found in Taiwan on montane slopes in mosses at elevations of 800 to 1100 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with a creeping, fleshy, somewhat coral-like in appearance, green, shortly pubescent rhizome with 4 to 6 nodes giving rise to an erect, simple, pale green, covered in glandular hairs strem carrying 2 to 3, simple, alternate, basal, ovate, acute, cordate basally, slightly fleshy, entire and slightly wavy margins, pale green and glabrous on both surfaces, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter on a terminal, erect, .6 to .8" [1.5 to 2 cm] long, denselyu glandular hairy, 3 to 5 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying smaller, white to grayish white flowers
"Cheirostylis lidaoensis is readily recognized by its green fleshy and coral-like rhizome; the ovate leaves, glabrous with 3 to 5 smaller flowers with an entire lip." S S Ying 2022
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* New Taxa New Names 7: 514 S S Ying 2024
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