Zeuxine nervosa (Wallich ex Lindl.) Bentham ex Trimen

in J. Ceylon Branch Roy. Asiat. Soc. 9: 90 (1885).

Synonymes

Adenostylis formosana (Rolfe) Hayata in Ic. Pl. Formos. 6. Suppl. (Gen. Ind. Fl. Formos.) 75 (1917).

Adenostylis zamboangensis Ames in Sched. Orch. 6: 10 (1923).

Haplochilus nervosus (Wallich) D.Dietrich in Syn. Pl. 5: 172 (1852).

Hetaeria nervosa Lindl. in Wall. Cat. 7381 (1832).

Heterozeuxine nervosa (Wallich) Hashimoto in Ann. Tsukuba Bot. Gard., 5: 21 : (1986).

Monochilus nervosus Wallich in Lindley, Gen. Sp. Orch. 487 (1840). (basionyme)

Zeuxine cognata Ohwi & T.Koyama in Bull. Nat. Sci. Mus. 3: 274 (1957).

Zeuxine fluvida Fukuyama in Ann. Rep. Taihoku Bot. Gard. 3: 81 (1933).

Zeuxine formosana Rolfe in Ann. Bot. 9: 158 (1895).

Zeuxine hengchuanense S.S.Ying in Col. Illust. Indig. Orch. Taiwan, 1(2): 342 (1977).

Zeuxine somai Tuyama in Bot. Mag. Tokyo 50: 27 (1936).

Zeuxine vittata Rolfe in Downie, Kew Bull. 414 (1925).

Zeuxine zamboangensis (Ames) Ames in Sched. Orch. Corr. 37 (1938).

Zeuxine assamica I.Barua & K. Barua in J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. 21: 491 (1997).

Zeuxine dhanikariana Maina, Lalitha & Sreek. in J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. 25: 21 (2001).

Répartition

Andaman et Nicobar, Bhoutan, Chine, Inde, Japon, Laos, Népal, Nouvelle Guinée, Philippines, Ryukyu, Sikkim, Taiwan, Thaïlande, Tibet, Vietnam.

Chine : Yunnan.

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

Philippines : Zamboanga del Norte, Zamboanga del Sur.

Taiwan : Chia-i, Hua-lien, I-lan, Kao-hsiung, Nan-t'ou, New T'ai-pei, P'ing-tung, T'ai-pei, T'ai-tung.

Floraison : JF__MJ_____D. Altitude de 20 à 1400 m.

Description sommaire

Plante terrestre. Taille de 7 à 30 cm. Feuilles de 2 à 7, de 50-65 × 16-25 mm, lancéolées, pétiolées. Fleurs de 3 à 8, blanches, vertes. Sépale dorsal concave, en coiffe. Sépales latéraux ovales, de 4-5 × 2-3 mm. Pétales ovales, de 0-4 × 2-3 mm. Labelle en sabot, de 4-7 × 4-5 mm.

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