Anoectochilus papillosus Aver. 2007
Photo/drawing by © Averyanov The Hoa Lan Vietnam Website
Common Name The Papillate Anoectochilus [refers to the unusual papillose ridges on the dorsal surface of the petals]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in northern Vietnam in broad-leaved evergreen forests on rocky limestone, remnant highlands commonly in humid shady limestone pockets with deep soil rich in humus at elevations of 900 to 1000 meters as a small sized, warm growing creeping terrestrial herb with an ascending leafy floriferous stem carrying 2 to 4 basal, ovate to broadly-ovate to almost circular, usually slightly asymmetrical, shortly acute, velvety dark green, with reticulate network of pink nerves above, uniform dull pink-purple below leaves that blooms on a terminal, erect, 3.6 to 4.8" [9 to 12 cm] long, densely finely tomentose with simple and glandular hairs, rachis lax, 3 to 5 flowered inflorescence with dull pink, triangular-cuneate, conduplicate, acuminate, sparsely hairy floral bracts.
"From all known representatives of the genus the new species differs in the petals bearing on the dorsal surface a short longitudinal ridge ornamented with massive, often forked capitate papillae. In other floral morphology this species approaches the Taiwanese A. koshunensis Hayata, from which it differs in the large and broad, shallowly dentate side lobes of mesochile. Obviously, the described species is endemic to rocky limestone remnant highlands spreading in north-western Vietnam along the Laotian border." Averyanov 2007
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Taiwania 52: 287 Averyanov 2007 photo/drawing fide;
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