大武斑葉蘭

Terrestrial herbs. Stems ascending from short creeping base, 15-25 cm long, densely noded at base. Leaves rosette, elliptic-oblong, 3-8 cm long, 2-3 cm wide, acute at apex, obtuse at base, fleshy, with white blotches on upper surfaces. Peduncles and rachis 20-30 cm long, hairy, with 3-6 sheaths below, sheaths lanceolate, hairy; floral bracts lanceolate, hairy outside, ciliate at margins. Flowers many, racemose; ovary green, hairy; sepals white toward apex, pale greenish toward base, hairy outside, dorsal one elliptic, 12-14 mm long, acute, lateral ones obliquely ovate, 12-14 mm long, 5-6 mm wide, acute at apex; petals white, tinged with green at apex, obliquely rhombic-spathulate, often cohering tightly at contacted margins, 12-14 mm long, 4-5 mm wide, obtuse; lip 9 mm long, ventricose, saccate, hairy within, limb triangular-ovate, with 2 longitudinal raised ridges, acuminate at apex; column 7-9 mm long; anther ovate, shorter than rostellum; stigma ventral, protruding; rostellar arms, lanceolate, acuminate at apex; viscidium elongate oblong.

TAIPEI: Tadaushan, Leou 3166. TAOYUEN: Lalashan, Leou 3580. HSINCHU: Wutsushan, Leou 3686. Chu-tung, Segawa s. n. Jan 1936. NANTOU; Chitou, Leou 3210; Salishen, Leou 3126. CHIAYI: Alishan, Leou 3349. KAOHSIUNG: Tengchih, Leou 3615; Dona, Su 7538. PINGTUNG: Lilungshan, Segawa s. n. Jan 1937. HUALIEN: Panshih, Leou 3944; Su 9243.

Endemic. Common in mountainous regions throughout the island.