Myrmechis drymoglossifolia Hayata

Species

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Characteristics

Plants 5-7 cm tall. Rhizome slender, branched. Stem white, tinged with red, 2-6 cm, with several leaves. Leaves abaxially grayish green, adaxially green, ovate or orbicular-ovate, 7-15 × 5-10 mm, with 3 main veins, base obtuse, margin slightly undulate, apex acute; petiole-like base and sheath 2-7 mm. Inflorescence to 3 cm, slender, pubescent; rachis 1-3-flowered; floral bracts lanceolate, shorter than ovary, glabrous, margin slightly ciliate. Flowers not fully opening, white; ovary and pedicel cylindric-fusiform, ca. 10 mm, glabrous. Sepals lanceolate, cymbiform, 6-8 × 2.5-3.5 mm, glabrous, 1-veined, connate at base; dorsal sepal recurved at apex; lateral sepals dilated at base. Petals connivent with dorsal sepal for almost entire length and forming a hood, narrowly ovate, oblique, 6-8 × ca. 2.8 mm, 1-veined, apex obtuse and recurved; lip Y-shaped, 10-12 mm, 3-partite; hypochile concave-saccate; calli suboblong, bidentate; mesochile canaliculate, minutely papillose; epichile distinctly 2-lobed; lobes widely divergent, oblong, 1.5-2 × 1-1.5 mm, apex obtuse. Fl. May-Aug.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Mature height (meter) 0.05 - 0.07
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Distribution

Myrmechis drymoglossifolia world distribution map, present in China and Taiwan, Province of China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:645041-1
WFO ID wfo-0000248226
COL ID 73RKN
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Synonyms

Myrmechis drymoglossifolia Myrmechis sasakii Myrmechis japonica var. sasakii Myrmechis gracilis var. sasakii