Hemipilia graminifolia (Rchb.f.) Y.Tang, H.Peng & T.Yukawa 2015 Hemipilia sect. Ponerorchis Y. Tang & H. Peng 2015 Type for the section

Photo by © Eric Hunt, plant grown by Dale Martin

Plant and Flowers in situ Japan

Photos by © Hisanori Takeuchi and his Orchids of the World Website

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Common Name The Grass-Like Leaved Hemipilia

Flower Size 3/8" [1.2cm]

Found in Japan as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with 2, irregular tubers giving rise to basal, suberect, cauline, linear leaves that blooms in the later spring and summer on an erect, to 18" [to 45 cm] long, congested, many flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Gymnadenia graminifolia (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. 1878; Gymnadenia rupestris Miq. 1866; Orchis graminifolia (Reichb.f.) Tang & Wang 1940; Orchis graminifolia var. chidori (Soó) M.Hiroe 1971; Orchis graminifolia ( Rchb.f. ) Tang & Wang var. suzukiana Ohwi 1969; Orchis rupestris (Miq.) Schltr. 1919; Orchis rupestris var. chidori Soó 1929; Ponerorchis graminifolia Reichb.f. 1852

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 as Ponerorchis graminifolia drawing; AOS Bulletin Vol 29 No 2 1960 as O rupestris photo good; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Gymnadenia graminifolia; AOS Bulletin Vol 44 #9 1975 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 3 1985 as Ponerorchis graminifolia photo fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 photo fide; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 2 Part One Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2001 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 66 #3 2002 photo fide;

Ponerorchis graminifolia var. suzukiana (Ohwi) Soó 1975 Photo byPatricia Harding

A color variety of the preceding species.

Synonyms *Orchis graminifolia ( Rchb.f. ) Tang & Wang var. suzukiana Ohwi 1969; Ponerorchis suzukiana ( Ohwi ) J.M.H.Shaw 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 #4 2006 photo fide; Phylogeny and classification of the East Asian Amitostigma alliance (Orchidaceae: Orchideae) based on six DNA markers Ying Tang, Tomohisa Yukawa, Richard M Bateman, Hong Jiang & Hua Peng 2015 Photo fide

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