Rhomboda yakusimensis (Masam.) Ormerod 1995 Photo by © Prof. Summer and Japan Orchid Photo Website

Plant in situ with capsules Photo by © J.J.Merry and Flickr Orchid Photo Website

Common Name or Meaning The Yakushima Rhomboda [An Island in southernmost Japan] - In China Bai Lei Ling Lan

Flower Size 1/4" [7mm]

Found in the Chinese Himalayas, Vietnam, Taiwan, the Ryukyu Islands and southern Japan in forests below elevations of 1500 meters as a small sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial with a dark reddish brown stem carrying 4 to 6, abaxially pale green, adaxially occasionally with a white stripe along the midvein, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, gradually narrowing into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, 2 to 6" [5 to 15 cm] long, laxly 3 to 15 flowered inflorescence with 1 to 4 sterile bracts and brownish red, ovate-lanceolate, lower ones longer than the ovary, ciliate margins, acuminate apically floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate flowers that do not open well.

Synonyms Hetaeria yakusimensis (Masam.) Masam. ex E.Walker 1976; *Zeuxine yakusimensis Masam. 1931

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009 as R tokioi; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 as R tokioi drawing fide

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