Anthogonium gracile

Anthogonium 筒瓣兰 tong ban lan
Anthogonium gracile Illustration in: W. Griffith & J. McClelland: Icones Plantarum Asiaticarum, 1851
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Orchidaceae
Subfamily:	Epidendroideae
Tribe:	Arethuseae
Subtribe:	Bletiinae
Genus:	Anthogonium Wall. ex Lindl. (1836)
Binomial name
Anthogonium gracile Wall. ex Lindl. (1836)

Plants to 55 cm tall. Pseudobulbs usually partly buried in soil, 1-2 cm in diameter, with 2 or 3 nodes, with 2-5 leaves. Leaf blade narrowly elliptic or narrowly lanceolate, 7-45 cm long, 1-3 cm wide, papery, base petiolate, apex acuminate; petioles and sheaths forming a slender pseudostem. Inflorescence erect; peduncle slender, glabrous, with several tubular sheaths; rachis 4-20 cm, laxly 4-8-flowered; floral bracts ovate-lanceolate, small, ca. 4 mm, acute. Flowers often slightly nodding, lip rose-pink or white and tinged with red; pedicel and ovary 1.5-2 cm. Sepals connate in basal half forming a tube 7-8 mm, with apical half free; dorsal sepal oblong-lanceolate, ca. 16 mm long, 2 mm wide, obtuse; lateral sepals falcate-spatulate, ca. 16 mm long, 4.5 mm wide, acute. Petals narrowly oblong-spatulate, ca. 16 mm long, 2 mm wide, obtuse; lip ca. 1.6 cm, cuneate-clawed at base, apical part 3-lobed; lateral lobes ovate-triangular, obtuse; mid-lobe subovate, nearly as large as lateral lobes, obtuse. Column ca. 1.6 cm.

CITIES category : Appendix II

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