Tropidia angustifolia C.L.Yeh & C.S.Leou

Species

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Characteristics

Plants 10-20 cm tall. Rhizome ascending; roots rigid, filiform. Stem erect, slender, unbranched. Leaf usually solitary, occasionally 2, linear-lanceolate to narrowly ovate-lanceolate, 8-10.5 × 1.7-2.1 cm, base cuneate, apex acuminate. Inflorescence terminal, 5-6 cm, 9-12-flowered; bracts lanceolate, glabrous. Flowers not resupinate, whitish, tinged pale green at apex of sepals and petals, tinged orange at apex of lip, glabrous; pedicel and ovary 5-7 mm. Dorsal sepal free, oblong, ca. 6.5 × 2.5 mm, apex subacute; lateral sepals almost completely connate and forming a synsepal; synsepal ca. 8 mm, bilobed at apex, slightly concave at base, apex reflexed. Petals slightly concave, oblong, slightly oblique, 6.5-7 × ca. 2.8 mm, keeled abaxially, apex acute; lip oblong-ovate, ca. 5 × 3 mm, concave-saccate at base, apex recurved; disk with 2 longitudinal ridges toward base. Column ca. 3 mm including rostellum; anther ovate, ca. 1.8 mm, apex rounded; pollinia clavate, ca. 1.7 mm, stipe linear; viscidium ovoid; stigma transversely elliptic. Fl. Jul-Aug.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Foliage retention evergreen
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Distribution

Tropidia angustifolia world distribution map, present in China and Taiwan, Province of China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77107631-1
WFO ID wfo-0000916139
COL ID 59BFG
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Synonyms

Tropidia angustifolia