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Zeuxine integrilabella C. S. Leou

Description from Flora of China

Hetaeria integrilabella (C. S. Leou) S. S. Ying.

Plants ca. 27 cm tall, slender. Rhizome usually short. Stem erect or ascending, pale reddish brown, 8-18 × 0.3-0.5 cm, 4- or 5-leaved. Leaves subrosulate, abaxially pale red, adaxially green with a silver-white stripe along midvein, oblong to ovate-elliptic, 2-7 × 1.5-3.5 cm, base obtuse or rounded, apex acute; petiole-like base pale purple, 0.5-1.7 cm including tubular sheath. Inflorescence to 15 cm, with 2 or 3 sterile bracts, tomentose, pale purple; rachis 8-14-flowered; floral bracts ovate, shorter than ovary, margin usually ciliate toward apex. Flowers resupinate; ovary and pedicel subcylindric, 7-8 mm, glabrous. Sepals pale brown, unequal in size, concave, glabrous; dorsal sepal elliptic, ca. 5.5 mm; lateral sepals oblong, ca. 5 mm. Petals white, falcate, 1-veined; lip rhombic, ca. 6 × 4 mm, entire, base contracted, not connate with column, lacking calli. Column 2.5-2.8 mm; wings low, triangular; anther ca. 2.2 mm; pollinia ca. 1.3 mm; rostellum arms ca. 1.2 mm. Fl. Apr.

The shape of the lip indicates that this taxon is a peloric mutant, with the presence of a silver-white stripe on the leaves and the low column wings suggesting an alliance to Zeuxine goodyeroides. More material is required on which to base a critical comparison.

● Broad-leaved forests; 1000-1800 m. C Taiwan.


 

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