Nervilia nipponica Makino 1909
Inflorescence and Flowers in situ Japan
Side View of Leaf in situ Japan Photos by © Hisanori Takeuchi and his Orchids of the World Website
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Common Name The Japanese Nervilia - In Japan Mukago-saishin
Flower Size
Found Japan, Ryukyu Islands and Taiwan in shady areas of primary, broad-leafed, and semi-deciduous, mixed and coniferous forests on rocky limestone at elevations of 1300 to 1400 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial that has a single, cordate, 3 lobed, obtuse leaf that blooms after leaf fall on an erect, 6" [15 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with a nodding flower.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchids of Southern Ryukyu Islands Garay & Sweet 1974; Lindleyana Vol 15 No 4 2000; < Ahref="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285980271_Studies_in_Asian_Nervilia_Orchidaceae_I_Neotypification_and_circumscription_of_N_nipponica_in_Japan/download"> KEW BULLETIN 62: 85–94 Studies in Asian Nervilia (Orchidaceae) I: neotypification and circumscription of N. nipponica in JapaStephan Gale*, Tomohisa Yukawa & Nobuhito Kuroiwa 2007 drawing/photo fide
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