Crepidium acuminatum

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 acuminatum
Scientific name
§crepidium acuminatum
AUTHOR	(D.Don) Szlach.

Plants terrestrial, sometimes epiphytic. Stem cylindric, (1.5-)4-7 cm, 4-6 mm in diam., fleshy, with several nodes, mostly enclosed in sheath. Leaves 3-5, obliquely ovate, ovate-oblong, or subelliptic, (4-)6-12 × 2.5-6 cm, base contracted into a sheathlike, amplexicaul petiole 2-4 cm, apex acuminate. Inflorescence erect; peduncle 12-43 cm, wingless; rachis 3-9(-16) cm, 10- or more flowered; floral bracts lanceolate, 3-4(-6) mm. Flowers purplish red, ca. 1.5 cm in diam.; pedicel and ovary 7-10 mm. Dorsal sepal narrowly oblong or broadly linear, 8-9 × ca. 2 mm, 3-veined, margin revolute, apex obtuse; lateral sepals oblong, 6-7 × 3-3.5 mm, margin revolute, apex obtuse. Petals narrowly linear, 8-9 × ca. 0.8 mm, margin revolute; lip superior, ovate-oblong or obovate-oblong in outline, 10-11 × 6-7 mm, shallowly 2-lobed, with a sinus 1(-2) mm deep, with a pair of auricles decurrent backward embracing column, adaxially with a central groove in apical half; auricles ± narrowly ovate, 1/5-2/5 length of lip. Column 1-1.5 mm, stout. Capsule obovoid-oblong, ca. 1.8 × 1 cm; fruiting pedicel ca. 7 mm. Fl. and fr. May-Jul. 2n = 30, 36, 42.

Forests, shaded rocks along valleys; 300-2100 m. Guangdong, SW Guizhou, ?Taiwan, SE Xizang, S Yunnan [Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam; Australia].

CITIES Category: Appendix II

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