扁根带叶兰 bian gen dai ye lan

Taeniophyllum crassipes Fukuyama.

Roots strongly flattened, 3-10 cm, 2-5 mm wide. Inflorescence suberect, 1-4 cm; peduncle and rachis green, slender; rachis 3-10-flowered; floral bracts triangular, very small. Flowers green; pedicel and ovary ca. 3 mm. Sepals and petals connate at base forming a tube 0.8-1 mm; lobes of sepals oblong-ovate, 2-2.2 × ca. 0.5 mm, slightly reflexed at apex. Petals smaller, base clawed; lip ovate-triangular, 2-3 mm, entire, with a small introrse apical linear appendage, base with retrorse square septum over spur entrance; spur subglobose, ca. 1 mm. Column short, stelidia rounded. Capsule cylindric, ca. 1 cm × 1.5 mm. Fl. and fr. unknown.

● C and S Taiwan.