Calanthe densiflora Lindl.

in Gen. Sp. Orch. 250 (1833).

Synonymes

Alismorchis densiflora (Lindl.) Kuntze in Rev. Gen. 650 (1891).

Calanthe kazuoi Yamamoto in Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Formosa, 1930, 20. 38 (1930).

Phaius epiphyticus Seidenf. in Nord. J. Bot. 5: 159 (1985).

Styloglossum densiflorum (Lindl.) Yukawa & P.J.Cribb in Bull. Nat. Mus. Nat. Sci., Ser. B, 40(4), pp. 145-151 (2014).

Répartition

Bhoutan, Birmanie, Chine, Inde, Malaisie, Ryukyu, Sikkim, Taiwan, Thaïlande, Tibet, Vietnam.

Chine : Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Sichuan, Yunnan.

Inde : Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, West Bengal.

Taiwan : Chia-i, Hsin-chu, Hua-lien, I-lan, Kao-hsiung city, Nan-t'ou, New T'ai-pei, T'ai-tung, T'ao-yuan.

Floraison : _______ASOND. Altitude de 160 à 3050 m.

Description sommaire

Plante terrestre. Taille de 40 à 50 cm. Feuilles de 3 à 5, de 180-400 × 20-60 mm, elliptiques, oblongues, pétiolées. Bractées elliptiques, lancéolées. Fleurs de 12 à 20, jaunes. Sépale dorsal lancéolé, de 14-16 × 2-4 mm. Sépales latéraux lancéolés, de 14-16 × 2-4 mm. Labelle trilobé, de 7-8 × 3-4 mm.

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