Cheirostylis octodactyla Ames 1907
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Common Name or Meaning The Eight Fingered Cheirostylis - In China Yu Chun Cha Zhu Lan
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines and Taiwan in damp areas of forests at elevations of 1000 to 2400 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial ascending pale reddish brown, fleshy stem carrying 3 to 6, scattered along the stem, abaxially pale green, adaxially green, ovate to elliptic or sometimes orbicular-cordate, acute , abruptly narrowing into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect, short to less than .4" [1 cm] long, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence enveloped below by leaf bases and not visible above the stem apex with pale green, ovate, shorter than the ovary, acuminate apically floral bracts.
Synonyms Cheirostylis inabae Hayata 1914; Cheirostylis oligantha Masam. & Fukuy. 1940
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; Flora Of Thailand Orchidaceae Vol 12 Part 1 Pedersen, Kurzweil, Suddee & Cribb 2011 drawing fide
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