DISTRIBUTIONThe species is known to have occurrence records in these countries.
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DESCRIPTION (FROM FLORA OF CHINA)
Plants 6–20 cm tall. Rhizome creeping, torose to moniliform, to 10 cm; roots in rows along rhizome internodes. Stem ascending, pale green, 1–3 cm, 2–4-leaved. Leaves subrosulate, green, ovate or broadly ovate, 1–3 × 0.7–1.7 cm, membranous, base rounded, apex acute; petiole-like base and sheath 0.3–1 cm. Inflorescence 5–18 cm, pubescent, with 3 or 4 sterile bracts; rachis 1–3 cm, 2–6-flowered; floral bracts oblong-lanceolate, concave, 5–8 mm, nearly as long as ovary, abaxially hairy, apex long acuminate.
Flowers small; ovary green, cylindric-fusiform, 7–8 mm including pedicel, sparsely pubescent. Sepals 3–4 mm, basal 1/2 connate and forming a tube, membranous, outer surface sparsely pubescent, 1-veined; free apical lobes triangular-ovate, ca. 1.8 mm, apex subobtuse. Petals appressed to dorsal sepal, white, narrowly oblanceolate-oblong, oblique, falcate, 3–4 × 1.2–1.5 mm, membranous, 1-veined, apex obtuse; lip erect, white, 5–7 mm, 3-partite; hypochile saccate, containing 2 comblike calli, each callus (4 or)5- or 6-toothed; mesochile ca. 1 mm, narrow; epichile with 2 green spots at base, flabellate, ca. 3.5 mm, 2-lobed; lobes ca. 3 mm, margin 4- or 5-dentate, teeth triangular with acute tips. Column ca. 2.5 mm; stelidia erect, nearly as long as rostellum; anther pinkish, ovoid, ca. 1.5 mm; viscidium narrowly oblong, ca. 1 mm; rostellum arms ca. 1.5 mm. Fl. Jan–Mar. (Grows in) Damp rocky soils in forests, along streams; 200–800 m. Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, C and S Taiwan [Myanmar, Philippines, Vietnam]. |