川西兜被兰 chuan xi dou bei lan

Plants 8-9 cm tall. Tubers ellipsoid, 10-20 mm. Stem erect, with 1 or 2 tubular sheaths at base, 2-leaved. Leaves basal, subopposite, narrowly oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 5-6 × 1-1.5 cm, apex obtuse. Rachis 3-3.5 cm, densely 6-8-flowered; floral bracts herbaceous, narrowly lanceolate, slightly longer than ovary, apex acuminate. Flowers pink; ovary and pedicel 6-7 mm. Sepals connivent and forming a hood; hood 10-11 × ca. 10 mm; dorsal sepal narrowly oblong-lanceolate, concave, 9-10 × 3-3.5 mm, 3-veined, apex subacute; lateral sepals lanceolate-falcate, oblique, 10-11 × 3.5-4 mm, 2-veined, apex acuminate. Petals appressed to dorsal sepal, linear-falcate, 8-9 × 1.4-1.5 mm, inner surfaces papillate, 1-veined, apex obtuse; lip reflexed, obovate, 9-10 × ca. 7 mm, base cuneate, 3-lobed below middle; lateral lobes obliquely ligulate, ca. 3 mm, apex obtuse; mid-lobe narrowly ligulate, ca. 6 mm, apex obtuse; spur pendulous, slightly curved forward, cylindric-conic, 6-7 mm, stout, ca. 2.5 mm in diam. at base, apex obtuse. Fl. Aug.

● Alpine meadows; 4000-4100 m. W Sichuan.