Newly Discovered Native Orchids of Taiwan
Taiwania, 51(3): 162-169, 2006 Newly Discovered Native Orchids of Taiwan Wei-Min Lin(1), Ling-Long Kuo Huang(2) and Tsan-Piao Lin(3,4) (Manuscript received 3 February, 2006; accepted 8 May, 2006) ABSTRACT: In this report, four newly discovered native orchids: Bulbophyllum fimbriperianthium, Eulophia pulchra var. actinomorpha, Saccolabiopsis wulaokenensis, and Tropidia nanhuae, including a new record of the genus, Saccolabiopsis, are presented. KEY WORDS: Native orchid, Bulbophyllum fimbriperianthium, Eulophia pulchra var. actinomorpha, Saccolabiopsis wulaokenensis, Tropidia nanhuae. INTRODUCTION apart, ovoid-conic, often oblique, rugose, 1-1.6 cm long, 6-10 mm wide. Leaves solitary, short petioled, In the past several years, the senior author, an oblong or oblong-oblanceolate, thick-coriacious, enthusiastic amateur, explored many locations 4-8.5 cm long, 1.2-2 cm wide, slightly retuse at throughout the island of Taiwan to take pictures of apex, cuneate at base. Scapes from base of wild orchids in their native habitats. With his keen pseudobulb, 6-8 cm long, 1 mm in diameter at base, sense for native orchids, he has discovered many thicker toward apex, lower part with 2 sheath-like species that have never been reported previously. scales, 5-9 mm long; bracts elongate-triangular, 7 This also indicates that many species were ignored mm long; pedicel and ovary 5-8 mm long. Flowers by botanists due to extreme similarity of their 4-8 in a very short raceme, umbellate, 2.4-3.5 cm vegetative parts even with repeat visits; thus the long, 7-9 mm across; upper sepal oblong, obtuse, or orchid flora of Taiwan is expected to continue to rounded at apex, white with red veins, deep red at expand.
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