短距风兰 duan ju feng lan

Plants tufted. Stems ca. 1.5 cm, many leaved. Leaves linear-oblong, ca. 6.5 × 0.6 cm, conduplicate and sheathing toward base, apex obliquely bilobed. Inflorescence including flowers 5-6 cm, densely few flowered; peduncle ca. 8 mm; floral bracts ovate, 3-4 mm, concave, scarious. Flowers white, tinged with pale pink at base of sepals and petals and tip of ovary; pedicel and ovary ca. 5 cm. Dorsal sepal oblong, ca. 6 × 2 mm, mucronate; lateral sepals obliquely oblong-oblanceolate, ca. 7 × 2 mm, dorsally carinate, shortly clawed at base. Petals obliquely oblong, ca. 6.5 × 1.5 mm, obtuse; lip 3-lobed; lateral lobes obliquely oblanceolate; mid-lobe slightly recurved, ligulate, ca. 6.5 × 3 mm, with a basal callus, apex obtuse; spur arcuate, ca. 1.1 cm × 1 mm. Column ca. 1.5 mm, thick. Capsule 6-ribbed. Fl. Apr-May.

● Epiphytic on tree trunks in forests; 1300-1400 m. Chongqing (Wanxian).