Calanthe tungyuanshanensis S.S.Ying 2024
Photos by S S Ying and NEW TAXA & NEW NAMES, vol 7-part two Website
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Common Name or Meaning The Tungyuan Calanthe [A mountain on Taiwan]
Flower Size .24 to .32" [6 to 8 mm]
Found in Taiwan on montane slopes on fallen, rotten tree trunk at elevations around 1335 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial/epiphyte with a simple to branched at base, up to 18" []45 cm long, erect to ascending, green to pale green, glabrous, upper part of stem usually covered by leaf sheath and carrying alternate, sessile, plicate, oblong to ovate-oblong, acuminate and caudate at apex, sheathed at base, chartaceous, smooth, many-veined, without any color spots, glabrous leaves with tubular-like, green, glabrous sheathes that blooms in the later fall on an erect to ascending, green, glabrous to pubescent on the upper part, 6 to 11.4" [15 to 238 cm] long, overall, rachis 2 to 3.6" [5 to 9 cm] long, green, pubescent, nonspotted, 9 to 14 flowered inflorescence with linear, acute, caduous, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts and carrying nonfragrant, orange yellow flowers,
"Calanthe tungyuanshanensis is a distinctive new species of Taiwan Calanthe. It is readily recognized by its orange-yellow, nodding, not widely opened flowers; lanceolate, equal sepals and lip rather smaller than sepals and petals, which the midlobe with elongate claw and widening abruptly into a triangular limb." S S Ying 2022
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* New Taxa New Names 7: 515 S S Ying 2024
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