Neottia piluchiensis T.P.Lin 2015

TYPE Drawing by © T.P.Lin 2015 and Taiwania 60: 169 T P Lin 2015

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Common Name The Piluchi Epipactis [refers to the clustered stems]

Flower Size .64" [1.6 cm]

Found in Taiwan moist forests at elevations of 2400 meters as a miniature to small sized, cold growing terrestrial with a rhizome giving rise to a slender, angled, glabrous stem carrying 2, opposite, ovate-triangular, acute, green, pale-green beneath, the second one smaller leaves that blooms in the late spring on a terminal, 4 to 6.4" [10 to 16 cm] long; scape green, minutely hairy, 2.4 to 3.2" [6 to 8 cm] long; 7 to 10 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, half as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying well spaced, green, wide open flowers.

" This species was identified as Listera nankomontana Fukuyama by W.M. Lin (2012), probably because N. nankomontana has a fork-like labellum. W.M. Lin (2012) also provided a good photo for reference. N. piluchiensis differs from N. nankomontana in having larger flowers, whilethe latter has smaller flowers (upper sepal .1" [2.5 mm] long and .04" [1 mm] wide, the lateral sepal .12" [3 mm] long; labellum .28" [7 mm] long, .14" [3.5 mm] wide, bilobed, lobes attenuate and acute) according to the type specimen, . Also the labellum of N. piluchiensis in general is narrower than that of the N. nankomontana. In fact, another three specimens of Listera nankomontana collected by N. Fukuyama (KPM-G00577, G00581, G00582) from Nanhutashan, Taiwan, at an elevation above 2000 m on Jul. 9, 1937 have even smaller flowers, especially the labellum, which are .2 to .24" [0.5–0.6 cm ]long." T.P.Lin 2015

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Taiwania 60: 169 T P Lin 2015

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