Inflorescence Photos by © Hiroshi Nakayama Calypso Lip

LATER EARLY

Common NameThe Turning Black Lecanorchis [refers to the flowers] - In China Quan Chun Yu Lan

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in north Fujian China, Japan, Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan and Thailand in damp areas of tropical evergreen hill forests at elevations of 400 to 1000 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing, mycoheterotrophic terrestrial with an ascending ligneous, scaly rhizome giving rise to an erect, blackish, slender, often branched stem with several remotely spaced sheaths that blooms in the later spring and early summer on a terminal, 1.2 to 2" [3 to 5 cm] long, 5 to 8 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Lecanorchis nigricans var. yakusimensis T.Hashim. 1990; Lecanorchis ohwii Masam. 1933; Lecanorchis oligotricha Fukuy. 1942; Lecanorchis purpurea Masam. 1929; Lecanorchis taiwaniana S.S.Ying 1987

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Southern Ryukyu Islands Garay & Sweet 1974 drawing?; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora Of Thailand Orchidaceae Vol 12 Part 1 Pedersen, Kurzweil, Suddee & Cribb 2011 drawing/photo fide

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