紅心豆蘭

Rhizomes obscure. Pseudobulbs closely aggregated, ovoid, 8-9 mm long, 6-7 mm in diam., greenish, rugose or more or less tessellate in age. Leaves oblong, 2.5-4.5 cm long, 8-10 mm wide, apex acute, base cuneate, nearly sessile, coriaceous. Scapes from base of pseudobulb, to 1.5 cm long, with 2 or 3 scales below; bracts 2 mm long, acute; pedicel and ovary 2.5 mm long. Flowers 6-8, racemose, closely spaced, not resupinate, whitish-yellow; sepals subequal, ovate, 3.5-4 mm long, 1.6-2 mm wide, acuminate; petals elliptic, 1.5 mm long, 0.6 mm wide, acute; lip red, hinged at apex of column foot, tongue shaped, 2.8 mm long, recurved, with minute papillae on upper surface; column short, whitish yellow, ca. 1 mm long, truncate wings narrowed into slender stylids at apex, foot 2 mm long, curved; pollinia 2, ovoid, 0.4 mm long, yellow. Capsules ellipsoid, to 1 cm long.

MIAOLI: Yangmeishan, Lin 129. NANTOU: Shanlinchi, Lin 394 . KAOHSIUNG: Dona, Su 7537.

Endemic, in forests at 700-1,500 m throughout the island.