长裂鸢尾兰 chang lie yuan wei lan

Iridorkis anthropophora (Lindley) Kuntze; Malaxis anthropophora (Lindley) H. G. Reichenbach.

Stem 2.5-4.5 cm. Leaves 5-9, distichous, laterally compressed, linear, often slightly falcate, 1.5-5 × 0.3-0.5 cm, thick, veins inconspicuous, base not articulate, margin ± crisped when dried, apex acuminate. Peduncle subterete, 8-10 cm, wingless, sometimes with large greenish foliaceous bracts below; rachis 7-9 cm, 3-4 mm in diam., more than 100-flowered; floral bracts lanceolate, 1-1.5 mm, margin often ± erose-incised, apex long acuminate or aristate. Flowers pale red, 1-1.5 mm in diam.; pedicel and ovary 1-1.5 mm. Dorsal sepal ovate, 0.7-0.8 × ca. 0.4 mm, apex obtuse; lateral sepals broadly ovate, 0.7-0.8 × 0.4-0.5 mm, apex obtuse. Petals suboblong, 0.7-0.8 × 0.2-0.3 mm; lip ca. 2 × 0.4 mm, 3-lobed; mid-lobe deeply lobed again; lateral lobes ovate-oblong to ovate-lanceolate, ca. 0.3 mm; mid-lobe ca. 1 mm, with 2 lanceolate lobules. Column ca. 0.2 mm, stout. Fl. May.

Epiphytic on trees along valleys; ca. 400 m. SE Hainan [Malaysia (Peninsular), Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam].