Zeuxine philippinensis (Ames) Ames 1938
Photos by © Kazuhiro Suzuki courtesy of Rediscovery of Zeuxine boninensis (Orchidaceae) from the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands and Taxonomic Reappraisal of the Species Website
Common Name The Bonin Zeuxine [An old name for the Ogasawara Islands Japan] - Japan Munin-kinuran
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found on the eastern Himalayas, Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Hainan provinces of China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Ogasawara Islands Japan and Taiwan on semi-shady, rocky slopes facing south with shallow soil at the edge of scrub-forest at around 700 meters as a miniature to small sized, cold growing terrestrial with a rhizome giving rise to an erect stem carrying 5, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, abruptly narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on an erect, peduncle 5" [12.5 cm] long, provided with 2 sterile bracts, hairy, rachis 1" [2.5 cm] long, 8 flowered inflorescence.
In 1898 King and Pantling confused this species with Z flava and so it was placed there, then Garay & Sweet in 1976 considered to be a synonym of Z parviflora but recent research has confirmed its distinctness.
Synonyms Zeuxine boninensis var. actinomorpha T.Yukawa 2018; Zeuxine gracilis var. sakagutii (Tuyama) T.Hashim. 1986; Zeuxine sakagutii Tuyama 1936; Zeuxine taiwaniana S.S.Ying 1987; Zeuxine uraiensis S.S.Ying 1988
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 as Z flava drawing fide; Orchids of the Southern Ryukyu Islands Garay & Sweet 1974 as Z leucochila; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 32 nr 2 Orchids of Thailand VI Neottiideae Seidenfaden 1978 as Z parvifolia drawing fide; Rediscovery of Zeuxine boninensis (Orchidaceae) from the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands and Taxonomic Reappraisal of the SpeciesTomohisa Yukawa1, Yumi Yamashita, Koji Takayama, Dairo Kawaguchi, Chie Tsutsumi, Huai-Zhen Tian and Hidetoshi Kato 2018 photo fide
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