Herminium oxysepalum (K.Y. Lang) X.H. Jin, Schuit., Raskoti & L.Q. Huang, Cladistics 2015.

Raskoti, Bhakta Bahadur, Schuiteman, Andre, Jin, Wei-Tao & Jin, Xiao-Hua, 2017, A taxonomic revision of Herminium L. (Orchidoideae, Orchidaceae), PhytoKeys 79, pp. 1-74 : 34

38. Herminium oxysepalum (K.Y. Lang) X.H. Jin, Schuit., Raskoti & L.Q. Huang, Cladistics 2015.

Basionym.

Androcorys oxysepalus K.Y. Lang, Guihaia 16: 106. 1996.

Type.

CHINA. Yunnan, Shangri-La, 3700 m, 10.08.1981, Hengduan Mountain Team of Institute of Botany , 2917 (Holotype: PE!) .

Description.

Plant 6-16 cm tall. Tuber globose, ca. 5 × 5 mm in diam. Stem slender, with 2 tubular sheaths and 1 leaf at base. Leaf elliptic or oblong, 1.5-1.7 × 0.8-0.9 cm, apex obtuse. Inflorescence 5-12 cm, rachis 1.8-4 cm, 6-7-flowered; floral bracts ovate, ca. 0.1 mm, shorter than ovary, apex acute. Flowers green, ovary and pedicel fusiform, slightly beaked, 3-3.3 mm. Dorsal sepal broadly ovate, concave, ca. 1-1.5 × 1-1.6 mm, margin denticulate, apex acute; lateral sepals spreading, oblong-lanceolate, concave, ca. 2.5-3 × 1-1.3 mm, margin denticulate, apex acuminate. Petals oblong-lanceolate, oblique, concave, ca. 1.5-2 × 0.8-1 mm, apex obtuse. Lip deflexed, lingulate-lanceolate, ca. 1.5-2 mm, fleshy, base dilated, apex obtuse. Column ca. 0.5 mm, anther with 2 divergent, hooded locules and broad connective; pollinia 2, clavate, attached to a viscidium by short caudicle; rostellum triangular; stigma 2 pulvinate, attached to base of rostellum. Fruit fusiform, 5-7 mm long.

Flowering time.

August.

Habitat.

Terrestrial in Abies forest at an elevation of 3700 m.

Distribution.

China (Yunnan).

Specimens examined.

CHINA: Yunnan, Zhongdian, 3700 m, 10.08.1981, Hengduan Mountain Team of Institute of Botany , 2917 (PE) ; Tibet, Yadong county , 25.08.2013, FLPH Tibet Expedition Team, 13-2182 (PE) .