尖叶鸟舌兰 jian ye niao she lan

Saccolabium pumilum Hayata, Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 20: 77. 1906; Ascolabium pumilum (Hayata) S. S. Ying.

Stems erect, 1.5-2 cm, 2-3 mm in diam., usually with 5-7 leaves. Leaves distichous; leaf blade green or sometimes brownish green, terete, 3-8 cm × 1.5-3 mm, fleshy, channeled above. Inflorescence axillary, erect, to 4 cm, 3-10-flowered; peduncle and rachis slender; floral bracts lanceolate or ovatelanceolate, 3.5-5 mm, membranous. Flowers small, not opening widely, pink, lip lateral lobes yellowish, spur greenish, tinged with purple, column red; pedicel and ovary 6-10 mm. Sepals and petals similar, oblong-lanceolate, 4-7 × 2-3 mm, obtuse; lip spurred, 3-lobed; lateral lobes erect, yellowish, suborbicular, ca. 1 mm; mid-lobe ovate, 4-5 × 3-4 mm, acute or apiculate; spur nearly parallel to ovary, straight, cylindric, 5-6 × ca. 0.5 mm. Column ca. 2 mm. Fl. Dec-Feb. 2n = 38*.

● Epiphytic on tree trunks in broad-leaved evergreen forests; 1000-2000 m. Taiwan.