Species Information - Herminium lanceum

Herminium lanceum (Thunb. ex Sw.) Vuijk, Blumea 11 (1961) 228

Type:

Synonyms:

• Ophrys lancea Thunb. ex Sw. Thunb. ex Sw., Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Handl. 21 (1800) 223
  - Type: ?
• Satyrium lanceum (Thunb. ex Sw.) Pers., Syn. Pl. 2 (1807) 507
• Aceras lancea (Thunb. ex Sw.) Steud., Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 1 (1841) 12
• Spiranthes lancea (Thunb. ex Sw.) Backer, Bakh.f. & Steenis, Blumea 6 (1950) 361
• Aceras angustifolia Lindl., Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl. (1835) 282
  - Type: Wallich 7061 (holo K; iso L)
• Monorchis angustifolia (Lindl.) O. Schwarz, Mitt. Thüring. Bot. Ges. 1 (1949) 95
• Platanthera angustifolia (Lindl.) Rchb.f., Otia Bot. Hamburg. 1 (1878) 39
• Herminium angustifolium (Lindl.) Benth. & Hook.f., Gen. Pl. 3 (1883) 622
• Herminium angustifolium (Lindl.) Benth. & Hook.f., Gen. Pl. 3 (1883) 622
• Aceras longicruris C.Wright ex A.Gray, Mem. Am. Acad. N. S. 6 (1858-9) 411
  - Type: Wright 338 (Ryukyu Arch., Okinawa, Kutomasima) (holo AMES)
• Herminium longicrure (C.Wright ex A.Gray) Benth. & Hook.f., Gen. Pl. 3 (1883) 622
• Aceras angustifolium var. longicrure (C. Wright ex A. Gray) Miquel; Prolus. Fl. Jap. (1866) 139
• Herminium angustifolium var. longicruris (C. Wright ex A. Gray) Makino, Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 10 (1896) 109
• Herminium altigenum Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih.12 (922) 334.
  - Type: CHINA, Tibet, Batang-Litang, Gambu gong ka, 4700 m, Limpricht W., 2327 (holo BRSL; iso B, lost)
• Herminium minutiflorum Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 19 (1924) 373.
  - Type: CHINA, Lo-fou-shan, 1000 m, 9.1917, Levine C.O., 1479 (holo B, lost)
• Herminium stenostachyum Tang & F. T. Wang, Bull. Fan Mem. Inst. Biol. 7 (1936) 130.
  - Type: CHINA. Yunnan, Sjemen, 5500 ft, Henry A., 13556 (Holotype: K [K000079032])
• Herminium angustifolium var. nematolobum Handel-Mazzetti, Symb. Sin.7 (1936) 1332.
  - Type: CHINA. Yunnan, Taiwah-se, 1916, Schoch 265 (holo WU! [WU0061579])
• Monorchis minutiflora (Schltr.) O. Schwarz, Mitt. Thüring. Bot. Ges. 1: 95. 1949.
• Herminium angustifolium var. brevilabre Tang & F. T. Wang, Acta Phytotax. Sin.1 (1951) 61.
  - Type: CHINA. Yunnan, Tsai H.T., 61889 (holo PE)
• Herminium angustifolium var. brevilabre Tang & F. T. Wang, Acta Phytotax. Sin.1 (1951) 61.
  - Type: CHINA. Yunnan, Tsai H.T., 61889 (Holotype: PE).
• Herminium longicrure (C. Wright ex A. Gray) Tang & F. T. Wang, Acta Phytotax. Sin.1 (1951) 61., not Benth. & Hook. f. (1883)
• Herminium lanceum var. longicrure (C. Wright ex A. Gray) H. Hara, J. Jap. Bot. 44: 60. 1969.

Basionym: Ophrys lancea

Tuber present. Stem terete, 0.4 cm, 3-4-leaved. Leaves distant, linear, 1.25 cm wide, upwards passing into the peduncle scales, apex pointed. Inflorescences racemose, stiff, narrow, glabrous; rachis 27.5 cm long, many-flowered. Floral bracts appressed, lanceolate-sublate, 1 cm long, apex pointed, concave. Ovary 0.5 cm long, erect, appressed to the rachis, with patent apex. Median sepal elliptic, 0.27 by 0.17 cm, concave, 1-nerved, apex rounded. Lateral sepals obliquely oblong, 0.3 by 0.16 cm, concave, 1-nerved, apex obtuse. Petals lanceolate, subfalcate, 0.23 by 0.07 cm, 1-nerved, apex subacute. Lip 3-lobed at the apex, 0.48 by 0.27 cm, not spurred; lateral lobes divergent, linear, 0.17 cm long, obtuse; mid-lobe small, triangular, obtuse; at the base shortly adnate to the column, concave with erect margins, 3-nerved. Column very short, porrect, stigma-lobes separate, close together, flat. Anther short, thecae close together. Pollinia pear-shaped, caudicles very short. (After Smith, 1905, as Herminium angustifolium (Lindl.) Benth. & Hook.f.).

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