Saccolabiopsis viridiflora Aver. 2005 Photo by © ?? and his Flickr Photo Website
Plant and Flowers Photo by © Leonid Averyanov
Plant Photos Photo by © Rudolf Jenny and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Drawing and Photos Photo by © Peter O'Byrne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name or Meaning The Green Flowered Saccolabiopsis - In China Ni Nang Chun Lan
Flower Size .1 to .16" [2.5 to 3.5 mm]
Found in Taiwan, Vietnam and the Philippines in broad leaves forests on branches at elevations around 300 to 500 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a 1.2 to 2.4" [3 to 6 cm] long stem carrying 3 to 8, distichous, oblong-lanceolate, slightly curved leaves that blooms in the spring on an axillary, simple, pendulous, 1.5 to 2.8" [3.5 to 7 cm] long, dilated in the middle, sulcate, 10 to 35 flowered inflorescence with triangular floral bracts and carrying well spaced flowers
Very similar to S taiwaniana but this one differs in the longer stem, 3 to 8 leaves, a pendent inflorescence and a shallowly 3 lobed lip.
Synonyms Saccolabiopsis wulaokenensis W.M.Lin, Kuo Huang & T.P.Lin 2006
References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009 as Saccolabiopsis wulaokenensis; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 4 2009 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 as Saccolabiopsis wulaokenensis drawing fide; The Wild Orchids of Taiwan Liu & Wang 2014 photos fide;
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