Epipogium lalashanense S.S.Ying 2022
Photos by S S Ying and NEW TAXA & NEW NAMES, vol 6-part two Website
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Common Name or Meaning The Lalashan Epipogium [A mountain in Taiwan]
Flower Size .24 to .36" [6 to 9 mm]
Found in Taiwan in rich loamy soils on montane slopes at elevations of 1900 to 1950 meters as a holomycoptric, emerging above ground only to bloom, medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with a tubular, globose, fleshy, soil like to pale white colored tuber that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an erect, terminal, silver white, 14 to 16" [35 to 40 cm] long, fleshy, hollow, glabrous, provided with a single, basal, tube like, truncate apically, somewhat transparent cataphyl and 2 to 3, scale-like, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate ampexicaul basally sterile bracts, rachis 2.4 to 3.2" [6 to 8 cm] long, 6 to 8 flowered inflorescence with ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, white, semitransparent, muich shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying nodding, pure silver-white flowers.
"The species somewhat near to Epipogium roseum in general appearance, but our species differs in having a smooth tubular rhizome, a few silver-white flowers, nearly equal sepals and petals that are ovate, somewhat concave, acuminate at apex, dentate at half-upper margins, without any papillose, spots and markings, and a transparent lip." S S Ying 2022
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* New Taxa New Names 5: 472 S S Ying 2022
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