Hetaeria youngsayei Ormerod 2004

Plant and Flowers in situ Hong Kong

Photos by © The Hong Kong Wildlife.net Website

Common Name Youngsay’s Hetaeria [Chinese Orchid Enthusiast current] - In China Xiang gang fan chun lan

Flower Size .2” [5 mm]

Found in Hong Kong, Hainan province of China, and Thailand in seasonal evergreen forests and lower mixed deciduous forests at elevations around 120 to 900 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with slender, stems carrying 2 to 8, cauline, obliquely lanceolate to oblong to elliptic, acute to subacuminate leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on an erect, glandular-pubescent, rachis 2.76" to 6" [6.9 to 15 cm] long 10 to 13.6” [25 to 34.5 cm] long overall, 12 to many flowered inflorescence with a c linear-triangular, acuminate, 1 to 3 veined, glandular pubescent on the dorsal side, shorter than the ovary floral bract and carrying subsessile to sessile flowers

Synonyms Hetaeria shiuyingiana L.Li & F.W.Xing 2009

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Oasis suppl. 3:7 2004; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; Flora Of Thailand Orchidaceae Vol 12 Part 1 Pedersen, Kurzweil, Suddee & Cribb 2011 drawing fide; The Wild Orchids of Hong Kong Barretto, Cribb and Gale 2011 drawing/photo fide; Turczaninowia 2011, 14(2) : 15–100 Averyanov 2011; LANKESTERIANA 14(2): 123—128. 2014 photo; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide

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