Odontochilus shaolinchianus S.S.Ying 2024
Photos by S S Ying and NEW TAXA & NEW NAMES, vol 6-part two Website
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Common Name or Meaning The Shaolinch Odontochilus
Flower Size .12 to .14" [3 to 3.5 mm]
Found in Taiwan on montane slopes at elevations of 1500 to 2010 meters as a mini-moiniature sized, cool to just cold growing terrestrial with a e creeping, fleshy, pale purple, glabrous rhizome giving rise to an erect, simple, 1.2 to 2" [3 to 5 cm] long, reddish purple, covered with glandular hairs stem carrying 2, simple, alternate, at the base of stem, blade ovate, acute at apex, cordate at base, fleshy, entire at the margins, dark green and tinged with pale purplish and dark to pale green beneath, glabrous on both surfaces, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an erect, terminal, rachis .32 to .48" [.8 to 1.2 cm] long, densely covered with glandular hairs, 3 to 4 flwoered inflorescence with oblong, acuminate at apex, shoreter to as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying smaller, white to grayish white flowers.
"Odontochilus shaolinchianus is readily recognized by its pale purplish fleshy and rhizome; reddish purplish stem and smaller dark green ovate leaves; with 3 to 4 smaller flowers, .02 to .028" [.5 to .7 mm] long, a white spur at sepal base; the lip white, exserted, rectangular, .14 to .18" [3.5 to 4.5 mm][ long, .128 to .156" [3.2 to 3.9 mm] wide, with a middle groove from the base to the apex and dividing it into two parts, acute at apex, wavy at the margins." S S Ying 2022
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* New Taxa New Names 7: 504 S S Ying 2022
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