贡山盆距兰 gong shan pen ju lan

Stems creeping, ca. 14 cm, ca. 2 mm in diam., internodes 4-5 mm. Leaves many, distichous; blade oblong, 1.5-1.6 × ca. 0.6 cm, apex acute and slightly 3-lobed. Inflorescence subumbellate, often 2-flowered; peduncle ca. 1 cm, upper part enlarged, lower part with 2 cupular sheaths; floral bracts ovate-triangular, ca. 1.5 mm. Dorsal sepal subelliptic, concave, ca. 5 × 3 mm, 1-veined, apex obtuse; lateral sepals oblong, ca. 5 × 2.3 mm, 1-veined, apex obtuse. Petals subobovate, ca. 4.5 × 2.5 mm, 1-veined, apex rounded; lip with an epichile and a saccate hypochile; epichile reniform, ca. 2.5 × 4 mm, margin and adaxial surface densely shortly barbate, with a central cushion, apex rounded and broadly emarginate; hypochile nearly subglobose, ca. 3 mm tall, ca. 2.5 mm in diam. Column ca. 1 mm; anther cap narrowed and beaked at apex. Fl. unknown.

● On rocks in forests; ca. 3200 m. NW Yunnan.