Spiranthes minamitaniana Suetsugu 2023

Comoparison photo between S minamitaniana and Spiranthes hachijoensis

TYPE LCDP by © Kenji Suetsugu and Species New to Science Website

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Common Name Minamitani's Spiranthes [Japanese collector of the type current] in Japan Osuzu-neji-bana

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Miyazaki prefecture of Japan in wetlands as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with fleshy, fasciculate, slender to tuberous roots giving rise to 2 to 6, basal, in a rosette, erect to spreading, narrowly lanceolate, acute to acuminate, indistinct petiolate base leaves that bloooms in the late spring and early summer on an erect, terminal, peduncle 6 to 14" [15 to 35 cm] long, provided with 1 to 3, sterile sheathing bracts, rachis 1.64" to 5.72" [4.1 to 14.3 cm] long, spirally arranfged, densely 24 to 49 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, glabrous, acuminate, longer to shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying resupinate, horizontal to nodding, barely to weakly opening, autogamous flowers

" Spiranthes minamitaniana is morphologically most similar to Spiranthes hachijoensis but differs from S. hachijoensis by semicircular, weakly- or non-3-lobed stigma, and more conspicuous anther cap." Suetsugu

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Phytotaxa 599: 145 Suetsugu 2023 drawing/photo fide

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