Herminium ophioglossoides Schltr. 1912

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Common Name or Meaning The Ophioglossum Like Herminium - In China Chang Ban Jiao Pan Lan

Flower Size .2" [ 5 mm]

Found in Sichuan and Yunnan provinces of China on grassy slopes at elevations of 2100 to 3500 meters as a mini-miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with ellipsoid to ovoid tubers giving rise to an erect stem with 2 to 3, basal sheaths and carrying a single, basal, arising from within the basal sheaths, elliptic-ligulate, acute to obtuse apically leaf that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a cylindric, ebracteate or with a single sterile bracts that is occasionally leaf bearing, 2 to8" [5 to 10 cm ] long, laxly to subdensely many flowered with lanceolate, much shorter to almost as long as the ovary, acuminate floral bracts

Synonyms Monorchis ophioglossoides (Schltr.) O.Schwarz 1949

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 2 Part One Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2001 photo hmm; Orchids of Huanglong Perner, Tang Si-Yuan 2007 photos fide; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing ok; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;

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