Odontochilus humilis S.S.Ying 2023
Photos by S S Ying and NEW TAXA & NEW NAMES, vol 6-part two Website
Common Name or Meaning The Very Modest Odontochilus
Flower Size .28 to .32" [7 to 8 mm]
Found in Taiwan in montane Cryptomeria forests at elevations of 1100 to 1450 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing terrestrial with a horizontal fleshy, pale purple, glabrous rhizome giving rise to an erect to ascending, fleshy, purplish, glabrous stem carrying 5 to 6, leafy throughout, ovate, acute, obtuse basally, chartaceous, entire to slightly wavy margins, lustrous green above, pale green beaneath, glabrous on both sides, midribed impressed above, elevated beanath, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, 1.6 to 2" [4 to 5 cm] long, white villoserarely single to 2 flowered inflorescence.
"Odontochilus humilis is readily recognized by its smaller herb with 1 to 2 flowers, and white T-shaped lip; hypochile bisaccate, mesochile .2 to .26" [5 to 6.5 mm] long, with 3 to 4 fimbriate flanges on each side, fimbriate linear, .18 to .24" [4.5 to 6 mm] long, pale green; epichile dilated to a 2 unequal, white blades." S S Ying 2023
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* New Taxa New Names 6: 525 S S Ying 2023
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