Spiranthes hongkongensis S.Y.Hu & Barretto 1976
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Drawing by © Teresa TRung Hop Fung and Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven and Deyuan 2010
Common Name The Hong Kong Spiranthes - In China Xiang Gang Shou Cao
Flower Size .32" [8 mm]
Found in Hong Kong, Nansei-shoto (Ishigaki Island), Taiwan and N. Borneo on open moist to dry hillsides, grasslands and meadows at elevations of 800 to 900 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphtye with 2 to 6, erect, spreading, linear to oblanceolate, acute leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, 4 to 18" [10 to 45 cm] long, rachis 1.4 to 5.2" [3.5 to 13 cm] long, becoming densely gladular pubescent distally, spirally arranged, many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, sparsely glandular pubescent, acuminate, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying creamy white flowers with a green, glandular-pubescent ovary.
This hybrid is a combination of Spiranthes flexuosa and Spiranthes sinensis
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Chung Chi J. 13(2): 2 S.Y.Hu & Barretto 1976
Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven and Deyuan 2009;
Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven and Deyuan 2010 drawing fide;
The Wild Orchids of Hong Kong Barretto, Cribb and Gale 2011 drawing/photo fide;
A Century of New Orchid Records in Bhutan Royal Government of Bhutan 2017 as S cf hongkongensis Drawing/photo good;
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