taxonID	type	description	language	source
A3688792FFB45D22FE731FAFFBF3FE0E.taxon	materials_examined	TAIWAN, Nantou County, Hoshe, c. 1000 m, C. S. Leou 4143 (holo NTUF, not found). Figs. 1 & 2 Terrestrial, sympodial herbs, up to 7 cm tall. Rhizomes short, creeping, distally ascending, greenish brown, moniliform with up to 13 nodes up to 0.5 cm apart, fleshy, c. 6 cm long, c. 0.5 cm in diam. Leaves c. 5, petiolate; petioles 0.5 - 0.7 cm long, base sheathing; lamina narrowly to broadly ovate, 1 – 1.5 × 0.7 – 0.8 cm, subcordate at base, acute at apex, margins entire, glabrous, greenish to reddish brown. Racemes terminal, erect, 4.5 – 5 cm tall; peduncle c. 3.5 cm long, greenish or reddish brown, densely pubescent with 0.5 – 0.8 mm long glandular hairs, bearing 3 lanceolate-ovate, sheathing scale leaves; rachis up to 1 cm long, laxly 1 – 7 - flowered. Bracts ovate, 7 – 8 × 2.9 – 3 mm, cuspidate at apex, shorter than ovary, sparsely glandular-pubescent, greenish brown to reddish brown. Flowers short-pedicelled, 4.4 – 4.5 mm in diam., greenish to dull green with white petals, labellum white with two (sometimes confluent) spots at the base of the epichile. Synsepal distinctly saccate at base, 5.2 – 5.4 mm long, apically trilobed with triangular, obtuse lobes, densely glandular-pubescent on the outer surface. Petals obliquely to falcately oblanceolate, 3.0 – 3.1 × 0.6 – 0.7 mm, adherent to the synsepal, apices not protruding from the lateral sinuses of the synsepal, subacute, 1 - veined. Labellum differentiated into hypochile and epichile, 5 – 6 mm long along the mid-line; hypochile saccate at base, inside with a short row of 2 – 3 papilla-like appendages on either side; epichile cleft for about half of its length to form 2 moderately spreading, subsimilar, subquadrate, 2.3 – 2.4 × 1.5 – 2 mm, coarsely 4 – 5 dentate lobes. Column 1.3 – 1.5 mm long; stigma bipartite, extended in 2 linear-triangular stylids that are parallel and subequal to the rostellum lobes. Rostellum bifid with linear lobes, c. 2 mm long; anther cuspidate in front, c. 1.8 mm long; pollinia 2, clavate, c. 1.3 mm long; viscidium not seen. Ovary green to brownish green, cylindricfusiform, 4.9 – 5 mm long, densely glandular-pubescent. Capsule not seen. Flowering & fruiting: Flowering in November; fruiting not observed. Habitat: Terrestrial in hill evergreen forest, growing in soil with litter in a moist, shaded area. Distribution: Hainan, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. Specimens examined: THAILAND, Nakhon Nayok, Pha Diew Dai, Khao Yai, N 14 ° 21 ’ 57.35 ”, E 101 ° 24 ’ 22.43 ”, c. 1100 m alt., 25.11.2021, Chanokkhun 424 (QBG!).	en	W., Pakum, N., Muangsan, T., Chanokkhun, P., Tripetch, H. Ae., Pedersen, Watthana, S. (2024): Cheirostylis tortilacinia (Orchidaceae), a new record for Flora of Thailand. Rheedea 34 (4): 232-236, DOI: 10.22244/rheedea.2024.34.04.04
