Crepidium biauritum

Systematics
Domain	Eukaryotes Eukaryotic
Kingdom	Plants Plantae
Division	Vascular plants Tracheophyta
Class	Monocot flowering plants Liliopsida
Order	Asparagales Asparagales
Family	Orchids Orchidaceae
Genus	Crepidium
Species	Crepidium biauritum
Scientific name
§crepidium biauritum
AUTHOR	(Lindl.) Szlach.

Plants terrestrial. Stem cylindric, 2-2.5 cm, fleshy, with several nodes, ± enclosed in membranous sheaths. Leaves usually 3, ovate, oblong-ovate, or subelliptic, 5-10 × 1.8-5 mm, base contracted into a sheathlike, amplexicaul petiole 1.5-3.5 cm, apex acuminate. Inflorescence erect; peduncle 15-21 cm, wingless; rachis 7-9 cm, 20-30-flowered; floral bracts reflexed, narrowly lanceolate, 4.5-6 mm. Flowers purplish red to green, ca. 7 mm in diam.; pedicel and ovary 4-5 mm. Dorsal sepal suboblong or oblong-lanceolate, 6-6.5 × 1.5-2 mm, margin revolute, apex obtuse; lateral sepals narrowly oblong-ovate, ca. 5 × 1.5-2 mm, base oblique, apex obtuse. Petals narrowly linear, ca. 5.5 × 0.3 mm; lip superior, rhombic-elliptic in outline, 4-5.5 × ca. 3 mm, base with a pair of auricles decurrent backward embracing column apex, unlobed, central part with 2 short lamellae, and between lamellae a longitudinal groove; auricles ovate or narrowly ovate, 2-3 mm. Fl. Jun.

Forests; 1300-2500 m. S and W Yunnan [NE India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand].

CITIES Category : Appendix II

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