Hemipilia hui [Tang & F.T.Wang] in ed.

Hemipilia sect. Hemipilia

Drawing by © Zhang Taili

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Common Name Hui's Hemipilia - In China Hua Xi Xiao Hong Men Lan

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Found in southeastern Gansu, Henan, Shaanxi, northwestern Sichuan and Yunnan provinces of China in forests and alpine grasslands at elevations of 1400 to 4000 meters as a mini-miniature to small sized, cold growing terrestrial with oblong to ovoid tubers giving rise to an erect stem provided with 1 to 3, basal tubular sheaths and carrying a single, basal, abaxially purplish green, adaxially deep green, often marked with purple spots, cordate, ovate to elliptic, glabrous, acuminate to acute, leaf that blooms in the later spring on a terminal, erect to slightly curved, peduncle .8 to 6.8" [2 to 17 cm] long, glabrous, rachis to 2.8" [7 cm] long, laxly 2 to 14 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bract. .

Synonyms Chusua hui (Tang & F.T.Wang) P.F.Hunt 1971; Chusua limprichtii (Schltr.) P.F.Hunt 1971; Hemipilia occidensichuanensis Y. Tang & H. Peng 2015; *Orchis hui Tang & F.T.Wang 1936; Orchis limprichtii Schltr. 1922; Ponerorchis limprichtii (Schltr.) Soó 1966

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of China Vol 25 Orchidaceae Zhengyi, Raven and Duyuan 2009 as Ponerorchis limprichtii; Flora of China Illustrations Vol 25 Orchidaceae Zhengyi, Raven and Duyuan 2010 as Ponerorchis limprichtii drawing fide; Phylogeny and classification of the East Asian Amitostigma alliance (Orchidaceae: Orchideae) based on six DNA markers Ying Tang, Tomohisa Yukawa, Richard M Bateman, Hong Jiang & Hua Peng 2015 Photo fide

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