Hemipilia nanoides (Schuit. & X.H.Jin) R.Kr.Singh & Sanjeet Kumar 2024
Photos/TYPE Drawing of Apetalanthe gracilis by © Nguyen Thanh Luan and Drawing by L. Averyanov and T. Maisak. Taiwania 65: 479 Aver. & Vuong 2020
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Common Name The H nana like Hempilia
Flower Size .28" [7 mm]
Found in Vietnam in wet mossy open places on rocky outcrops in humid evergreen broad-leaved forest at elevations of 2000 to 3000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing litho-terrestrial with an underground, stoleniferous, generally glabrous, subglobular, ovoid or shortly cylindrical, pale yellowish to light brownish tuber giving rise to an ascending, oblique or erect, white at base, grassy green in distal half, with fine longitudinal papillulose ribs, provided with 3 to 4, tubular white or light greenish, obtuse or acute apex, bracts and at middle with 1 suberect to horizontally recurved, obtuse or acute apex, sessile, narrowly lanceolate, often slightly falcate, conduplicate, uniformly grassy green, tapering from wide base to obtuse apex, finely papillulose along margin, abaxially with prominent median vein cauline leaf that blooms in the late spring and earlier summer on an erect, peduncle ebracteate, grassy green, .72 to .936" [1.8 to 2.34 cm] long, rachis grassy green, .32 to .48" [.8 to 2 cm] long, 1 to 3 flowered inflorescence with leaf-like, narrowly to broadly lanceolate, horizontally recurved, grassy green, longer than the flowers floral bracts and carrying distant, sessile, resupinate, widely opening flowers
Synonyms Apetalanthe gracilis Aver. & Vuong 2020; *Ponerorchis nanoides Schuit. & X.H.Jin 2021
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Taiwania 65: 479 Aver. & Vuong 2020 as Apetalanthe gracilis photos fide
Pl. Diversity 43: 399 X.H.Jin, Schuit. & C.B.Ma 2021 as Ponerorchis nanoides photos fide;
* J. Biodivers. Conservation 8(4): 89 R.Kr.Singh & Sanjeet Kumar 2024
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