Goodyera pendula Maxim. 1888
Photo by © Hiroshi Nakayama Calypso Lip
Inflorescence and plant in no entry room at botanical garden through frosted glass
Photos by © Natsui.
Common Name The Pendulous Blooming Goodyera in Japan Tsuri-shusu-ran - In China Chui Ye Ban Ye Lan
Flower Size 1/4" [8mm]
Found in Japan, China and Taiwan in wet montane forests at elevations of 1800 to 1900 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte on tree trunks or lithophyte on rock faces with a pendulous stem carrying many, well spaced, green, lanceolate to narrowly ovate, 5 veined, acuminate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer on a strongly recurved midway along the length, green, sparsely pubescent, 2.8 to 4.4" [7 to 11 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with several foliaceous sterile bracts and lanceolate, membraneous, pubescent, acuminate floral bracts
Synonyms Epipactis pendula (Maxim.) A.A.Eaton 1908; Goodyera pendula var. brachyphylla F.Maek. 1935; Peramium pendulum (Maxim.) Makino 1929
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchideologiae Sino-Japonicae Prodromus Schlechter 1919; Orchids of Southern Ryukyu Islands Garay & Sweet 1974; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; The Wild Orchids of Taiwan Lin & Wang 2014 photos fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide
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