Goodyera hachijoensis Yatabe 1891

Photo by © Karl Senghas and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Inflorescence Photo by Takato NATSU from Japan and his Japan Orchids Page

Leaves Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler.

Common Name The Hachijo Goodyera [An Island in the Japanese Archipelago] - In Japan Hachijo shusu-ran - In China Bai Wang Mai Ban Ye Lan

Flower Size .15" [4mm]

Found in Japan, the Ryukyu Islands and Taiwan in montane forests in damp places at elevations of 400 to 1500 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with an erect, leafy below stem carrying either congested or distant, ovate, ovate-elliptic, to ovate lanceolate, either green with the midrib discolored or finely white reticulated, glabrous throughout, often with undulate margins, acute apically, rounded to cordate into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, 4 to 8" [10 to 20 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence with green, reddish brown at the base, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, margin lacerate-fimbriate, basally, acuminate floral bracts and carrying weakly opening flowers held in a cylindrical raceme.

Synonyms Epipactis hachijoensis (Yatabe) A.A.Eaton 1908; Epipactis matsumurana (Schltr.) A.A.Eaton 1908; Goodyera alboreticulata Hayata 1911; Goodyera hachijoensis f. izuohsimensis Satomi 1958; Goodyera hachijoensis var. leuconeura (Maek.) Ohwi 1953; Goodyera hachijoensis var. matsumurana (Schltr.) Ohwi 1965; Goodyera hachijoensis var. yakushimensis (Nakai) Ohwi 1953; Goodyera leuconeura Maek. 1936; Goodyera matsumurana Schltr. 1906; Goodyera yakushimensis Nakai 1923; Peramium alboreticulatum (Hayata) Makino 1929; Peramium hachijoense (Yatabe) Makino 1929; Peramium matsumuranum (Schltr.) Makino 1929; Peramium yakushimense (Nakai) Makino 1929

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchideologiae Sino-Japonicae Prodromus Schlechter 1919 as G alboreticulata; Orchideologiae Sino-Japonicae Prodromus Schlechter 1919 as G matsumurana; Orchideologiae Sino-Japonicae Prodromus Schlechter 1919; Orchids of Southern Ryukyu Islands Garay & Sweet 1974; Native Orchids of Taiwan Lin 1975 Drawing OK/photo OK; Manual Of Orchids Stewart 1995; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; The Wild Orchids of Taiwan Lin & Wang 2014 as G matsumaurana photos fide;

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