Crepidium khasianum

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 khasianum
Scientific name
§crepidium khasianum
AUTHOR	(Hook.f.) Szlach.

Plants terrestrial. Stem cylindric, 7-8 cm, 2-3.5 mm in diam., fleshy, with several nodes, often ± naked. Leaves often 4 or 5, obliquely ovate or narrowly ovate-lanceolate, 3.5-7 × 1.5-2 cm, base contracted into an amplexicaul petiole 1.5-2 cm, apex acuminate. Peduncle 8-11 cm, nearly wingless; rachis 4-5 cm, 20- or more flowered; floral bracts narrowly lanceolate, 2.5-3 mm. Flowers yellowish green, relatively small; pedicel and ovary 3.5-4.5 mm. Sepals oblong-elliptic or ovate-elliptic, 2.4-2.8 × 1-1.2 mm, apex obtuse; lateral sepals somewhat oblique. Petals narrowly linear, 2-2.5 × ca. 0.3 mm, apex obtuse; lip superior, nearly broadly oblong in outline, 3.5-4 mm, with an indentation on either side below or near middle, formed by involute margin, base with a central depression, surrounded by a fleshy ridge, apex shallowly 2-lobed, sinus ca. 0.5 mm deep; auricles subovate or oblong-ovate, 1-1.2 mm, decurrent backward embracing column. Column erect, ca. 1 mm. Fl. Jul. 2n = 42.

Rock crevices in forests; 1000-1100 m. S and W Yunnan [NE India, Thailand].

CITIES category : Appendix II

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