阿里山鸢尾兰 a li shan yuan wei lan

Stem 3-6 cm. Leaves many, distichous-equitant, laterally compressed, ensiform or linear, 2-4.5 × 0.3-0.5 cm, base not articulate, apex acuminate or acute. Peduncle 10-12 cm; rachis 6-10 cm, many flowered, whorls 1-2 mm apart from each other; floral bracts ovate-lanceolate, ca. 1.5 × 0.5 mm, margin inconspicuously erose. Flowers reddish orange or reddish brown; pedicel and ovary 0.8-1 mm. Dorsal sepal suboblong or oval-oblong, 0.7-1.5 × 0.5-0.7 mm; lateral sepals recurved, ovate or ovate-triangular, 0.7-1.5 × 0.6-0.8 mm. Petals ovate-oblong or oblong, ca. 1 × 0.5 mm, margin ± erose; lip 1-1.3 mm, 3-lobed; mid-lobe bilobed again, concave at base; lateral lobes obliquely ovate-oblong, 0.4-0.5 mm, margin erose or inconspicuously fimbriate; mid-lobe suboblong, ca. 1 mm, with 2 ovate-lanceolate lobules ca. 0.3 mm. Column ca. 0.2 mm, stout. Fl. Feb-Jun.

Epiphytic on trees in forests; 400-2000 m. Taiwan [Japan (Ryukyu Islands)].