Androcorys pugioniformis

Herminium pugioniforme Lindley ex J. D. Hooker, Fl. Brit. India 6: 130. 1890; H. nivale Schlechter;Monorchis pugioniformis (Lindley ex J. D. Hooker) O. Schwarz.

Plants 5.5-18 cm tall. Tuber globose, 6-10 mm in diam. Stem erect or ascending, slender to relatively stout, with 1 or 2 tubular sheaths and 1 leaf at base. Leaf oblanceolate, oblong, narrowly elliptic, or elliptic, 2-4 × 0.4-1.2 cm, apex obtuse or acute. Rachis 0.8-2.5 cm, 3-10-flowered; floral bracts broadly ovate, much shorter than ovary, apex acute. Flowers green; ovary and pedicel 4-5 mm. Dorsal sepal erect, ovate or ovate-orbicular, concave, ca. 1.5 × 1-1.2 mm, 1-veined, entire, apex obtuse; lateral sepals spreading, obliquely obovate to elliptic, 1.7-2.2 × 1-1.2 mm, entire, 1-veined, apex obtuse. Petals obliquely obovate, concave, 1.3-1.5 × 0.5-0.8 mm, 1-veined, entire, apex obtuse or subacute; lip linear-oblong, 1.7-2.5 mm, fleshy, base conspicuously dilated and 0.5-1 mm wide, apex obtuse; connective ca. 0.6 mm wide; viscidia ellipsoid. Fl. Aug-Sep, fr. Sep.

Abies forests, alpine thickets and meadows; 2700-5200 m. E and S Qinghai, NW Sichuan, Xizang, NW Yunnan [Bhutan, India, Kashmir, Nepal].

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

CITIES category : Appendix II

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