Tropidia nipponica Masam.1929

Plant and Flowers in situ Japan

Photo Anon/Drawing by © Flora Of China Webpage

Common Name The Japanese Tropidia - In China Zhu Jing Lan

Flower Size 1" [2.5cm]

Found in Japan, The Ryukyus and Taiwan in forests at low to medium elevations as a medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with an erect, slender, often branched stem with the proximal nodes enveloped by sheaths and carrying 1 to 2, alternate, elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, papery, acute apically leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, subglobose, sparsely pubescent, to 2.4" [6 cm] long, 5 to 10 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate flowers

Synonyms Tropidia angulosa var. nipponica (Masam.) S.S.Ying 1990; Tropidia nipponica var. hachijoensis F.Maek. & Yokota 2016; Tropidia sui T.C.Hsu 2016

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 43: 249 Masam. 1929

Coloured Ill. Indig. Orchids Taiwan 2: 677 S S Ying 1990 as Tropidia angulosa var. nipponica

Flora of China Vol 25: 196 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009;

The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide;

Fl. Taiwan 2: 210 T C Hsu 2016 as T sui

Fl. Japan 4b: 243 F.Maek. & Yokota 2016 as T nipponica var. hachijoensis

Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;

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