Cheirostylis glandulifera (Aver.) J.M.H.Shaw 2014
TYPE Photo/TYPE Drawing by © Susanna Stuart-Smith
MID 
Common Name The Gland Carrying Cheirostylis [refers to the peculiar capitate glands inside the hypochile]
Flower Size .36 to .4" [9 to 10 mm] long,
Found in northern Vietnam in primary broad-leaved closed wet forest on very steep rocky slopes and cliffs of low remnant mountains in mossy wet decaying log-timber in humid, shady, rocky valley of small stream composed with highly eroded solid marble-like limestone at elevations of 400 to 500 meters as a miniature sized thot growing terrestrial or lithophyte with a creeping rhizome giving rise to an ascending, basally leafy, 3 to 4 sterile bracts above stem carrying 2 to 4, thick, slightly succulent, concolorglossy green, with an indistinct reticulation of dark green nerves, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the mid winter on a terminal, erect, 2" [5 cm] long, densely tomentose with soft simple hairs, laxly 1 to 2? flowered inflorescence with white, subhyaline, 3 light green nerved, longer than the ovary floral bracts.
Synonyms *Hayata glandulifera Aver. 2009
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Taiwania, 54(4): 311-316, 2009 Hayata glandulifera (Orchidaceae), New Genus and Species From Northern Vietnam Averyanov 2009 drawing/photo fide
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