The New Refugium Botanicum. Phalaenopsis japonica

Abstract

Phalaenopsis japonica (Linden & Rchb. f.) Kocyan & Schuit., Phytotaxa 161(1):67. 2014. Basionym: Aerides japonica Linden & Rchb.f., Hamb. Gartenz. 19:210. 1863. Synonyms: Sedirea japonica (Linden & Rchb.f.) Garay & H.R. Sweet, Orchids S. Ryukyu Islands 149. 1974. Hygrochilus japonica (Linden & Rchb.f.) M.H.Li, Z.J.Liu & S.R.Lan, Phytotaxa 159(4):267. 2014. Type: Japan. Without definite locality, hort. J. Linden s.n. (holotype, W). An epiphytic, small, erect herb with leafy monopdial stems, to about 10 cm tall. Stem short, leafy, completely enclosed by the conduplicate, tightly clasping leaf bases. Roots coarse, fleshy, ca. 5 mm in diameter, slightly flexuous to stiff, the apices green, produced along the stem and exerted from the axils of the lowers leaves. Leaves 5–7, distichous, conduplicate, oblong to elliptic oblong to suborbicular, thick subcoriaceous, obliquely obtuse, irregularly retuse-bilobed at apex, to 15 cm long, 5 cm wide, contracted at the base into a short conduplicate petiole. Inflorescences 1-2, each a lateral, arcuatependent, laxly many-flowered (to 15) raceme, to 18 cm long, produced from the axil of the basal leaves; peduncle terete, rather stout, ca. 5 cm long, provided with a lax, ovate to ovate-elliptic, obtuse bract 7–12 mm long.