Cryptochilus luteus

Systematics
Domain	Eukaryotes Eukaryotic
Kingdom	Plants Plantae
Division	Vascular plants Tracheophyta
Class	Monocot flowering plants Liliopsida
Order	Asparagales Asparagales
Family	Orchids Orchidaceae
Genus	Cryptochilus
Species	Cryptochilus luteus
Scientific name
§Cryptochilus luteus

Pseudobulbs clustered on a short rhizome, cylindric, 1.5-3.5 cm × 5-10 mm, 2-leaved. Leaf blade narrowly oblong or suboblanceolate-oblong, 5-16.5 × 1-2.5 cm, papery, acuminate; petiole 1-3 cm. Inflorescence subdensely 20-40-flowered; peduncle 7-14 cm, slender, glabrous; rachis 3.5-8 cm; floral bracts alternate, narrowly lanceolate, 6-14 mm, grooved, long acuminate. Flowers yellowish green or yellow; pedicel and ovary 3-4 mm, densely pubescent. Sepals connate into an urceolate tube, 3-5 mm, outer surface glabrous; free apical lobes ovate-triangular, ca. 1 mm; lateral sepals convex on one side; mentum saccate, short. Petals hidden in mentum, obovate-lanceolate, 3.5-4 × ca. 0.8 mm; lip subrhombic-cuneate, 3.5-4 × ca. 0.8 mm, base slightly curved, apex obtuse. Column short, thick, apex dilated, with a short foot. Capsule suboblong, 6-7 × 3-3.5 mm. Fl. Jun-Jul, fr. Sep-Oct.

Epiphytic on trees or lithophytic on rocks in dense forests or at forest margins; 1000-2300 m. W to SE Yunnan [Bhutan, NE India, N Vietnam].

CITIES category : Appendix II

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