Hemipilia taiwanensis (Fukuy.) Y.Tang & H.Peng 2015

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Common Name or Meaning The Taiwan Hemipilia - In China Tai Wan Xiao Hong Men Lan

Flower Size .6" [1.4 cm]

Found in Taiwan on cliffs, crevasses and on limestone rocks at elevations of 1500 to 2000 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing lithophyte with ellipsoid to subglobose tubers giving rise to a green with purple striations or a purple stem with 1 to 2 tubular basal sheaths and carrying 2 to 5, cauline, alternate, widely spaced, green, linear to lanceolate, becoming smaller and bract-like above, glabrous, acuminate apically leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, green to purple 2 to 4.8" [5 to 12 cm] long, 5 to 20 flowered inflorescence with erect, green or purple, lanceolate, acuminate, almost as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying purple, rose to rarely white flowers

Synonyms Chusua taiwanensis (Fukuy.) P.F.Hunt 1971; Orchis taitungensis S.S.Ying 1985; Orchis taitungensis var. alboflorens S.S.Ying 1985; *Orchis taiwanensis Fukuy.1935; Ponerorchis taitungensis (S.S.Ying) S.S.Ying 1988; Ponerorchis taitungensis var. alboflorens (S.S.Ying) S.S.Ying 1988; Ponerorchis taiwanensis (Fukuy.) Ohwi 1936;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 as Orchis taiwanensis photo ok; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009 as Ponerorchis taiwanensis; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 as Ponerorchis taiwanensis drawing 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

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