Lecanorchis latens T.P.Lin & W.M.Lin 2011
TYPE Photo/TYPE Drawing by © T.P.Lin & W.M.Lin 2011 and Taiwania 56: 317 T.P.Lin & W.M.Lin 2011
Common Name The Hidden Lecanorchis
Flower Size .4 to .52" [1 to 1.3 cm]
Found in Taiwan on forest floor at elevations of 400 to 500 meters as a small to medium sized, hot growing terrestrial with a black, crooked, short noded rhizome giving rise in the spring and summer to an erect, to 12" [30 cm] long, blackish, hardened, flattened, provided with several small sheaths, rachis to 4" [10 cm] long, branxching, can last for more than 1 year, successively 1 rarely to 2, several flowered inflorescence with small, triangular, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying wide open flowers that are lightly violet tinged with green at the apex of the sepals.
"This herb is characterized by the glabrous lip disc which usually grows dense hair or is papillose in other species of Lecanorchis." T.P.Lin & W.M.Lin 2011
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Taiwania 56: 315 T.P.Lin & W.M.Lin 2011 drawing/photo fide
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