心唇金釵蘭

Stems 30-60 cm tall, ca. 5 mm in diam., usually simple. Leaves terete, 20 cm long, 3 mm in diam.; sheath 2 cm long. Bract of raceme broadly ovate, 3 mm long, acute; pedicel and ovary glabrous, 1 cm long. Flowers 2 or 3, often pendulous, green, 1 cm in diam.; dorsal sepal ligulate, 5 mm long, 3 mm wide, obtuse or acute, 5-nerved; lateral sepals ovate-lanceolate, 6 mm long, 4 mm wide, concave and more or less cymbiform, 7-nerved; petals linear, 7.5 mm long, 2 mm wide, acute; lip fleshy, dark purple adaxially, green abaxially, 7 mm long, 3-lobed, base concave, 3 mm long, 4.5 mm wide, with 2 small obtuse side lobes, midlobe cordate, 4 mm long, 5 mm wide; column ca. 3.5 mm long, tinged with purple ventrally. Capsules erect, trigonous, to 5 cm long.

Endemic, collected only once by T. Suzuki (N. Fukuyama 3984, in 1933) in thickets along the seashore at Ansow, near Tawu, Taitung.