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32. Hoya chinghungensis (Tsiang & P. T. Li) M. G. Gilbert & P. T. Li & W. D. Stevens, Novon. 5: 9. 1995.

景洪球兰 jing hong qiu lan

Description from Flora of China

Dischidia chinghungensis Tsiang & P. T. Li, Acta Phytotax. Sin. 12: 130. 1974.

Shrubs epiphytic. Stems to 2 m, branching mainly near base, pendent; branches and petiole pubescent. Leaves longer than internodes; petiole ca. 1.5 mm; leaf blade broadly ovate, 1-1.5 × 0.7-1.1 cm, glabrous, base rounded to truncate, apex acute to obtuse; lateral veins obsolete. Pseudumbels terminal, 4- or 5-flowered; peduncle shorter than pedicels, sometimes obsolete. Pedicel 0.8-1.2 cm, puberulent. Sepals ± ovate, 1.5-2 × ca. 1.2 mm, apex obtuse, densely pubescent. Corolla white, 1-1.2 cm in diam., rotate or nearly so; limb ca. 3.5 mm wide; lobes triangular-ovate, ca. 3.5 × 4.5 mm, glabrous outside, minutely puberulent inside, apex subacute. Corona lobes pink when dried, triangular, outer apex subacute, center flat or only slightly raised, inner tooth recumbent on anther, reaching base of appendages. Anther appendages just overlapping in center. Pollinia 0.4-0.5 × ca. 0.2 mm, oblong-oblanceolate, pale yellow. Follicles linear-lanceolate 7-9 cm × 3-4 mm, pendent, glabrous. Seeds linear-oblong, ca. 2.5 × 0.3 mm; coma ca. 2 cm. Fl. Jun, fr. Jul-Oct.

Dense forests; 1500-2000 m. S Yunnan [Myanmar].


 

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