taxonID	type	description	language	source
2B7B87B1FFC13C441BEA4C2AFCAFFE26.taxon	materials_examined	Type: — CHINA. Hainan Province: Wuzhishan Mountain National Nature Reserve, in tropical rainforest, 18 ° 53 ’ N – 109 ° 41 ’ E, 1,380 – 1,400 m, 1 September 2012, Li 0466 (holotype: IBSC!). A terrestrial herb with creeping rhizome and ascending leafy stem. Rhizome terrete, 5 – 6 cm long, rooting at nodes; internodes 1.2 – 2.0 cm. Roots arising from rhizome nodes, pubescent. Stem 4 – 5 cm tall, glabrous, enveloped by tubular, leaf-bearing sheaths. Leaves 6 – 7, cauline, alternate, sheathing petiolate; petiole and sheath 0.5 – 1.0 cm long; leaf blade ovate, margin entire, base rounded, apex acute, 1.6 – 2.2 × 0.7 – 1.0 cm, deep green to green, grayish-green beneath without white markings. Inflorescence terminal, erect, racemose, sparsely pubescent; peduncle ca. 9.5 cm long, with 2 sterile bracts, 4.0 – 7.0 × 0.5 – 1.0 mm, pinkish brown; rachis 3.0 – 3.5 cm long, loosely spaced with 4 – 6 - flowers. Floral bracts shorter than the ovary, tubular, redbrown, apex acuminate, margin sparsely ciliate or fringed, 6.0 – 6.5 × 1.5 – 2.0 mm. Pedicel and ovary fusiform, subglabrous, twisted, 7.5 – 8.0 × 0.8 – 1.5 mm, dark brown. Flowers about 6.0 – 6.5 mm across, red-brown with a yellow and white lip. Sepals subglabrous, subsimilar; dorsal sepal 5.2 – 5.4 × 1.4 – 1.7 mm, oblong-lanceolate, concave below middle or near base, apex obtuse, red-brown; lateral sepals spreading, narrowly oblonglanceolate, 4.0 – 4.2 × 1.0 – 1.4 mm, acuminate, margin slightly involute, apex obtuse, adaxially olive-green tinged red-brown, abaxially red-brown. Petals glabrous, oblique, slightly falcate, 4.8 – 5.0 mm long, broad in the middle, narrowing suddenly towards the apex, closely joined or united to the dorsal sepal forming a forward hood over column, white. Lip cymbiform, fleshy, saccate at base, 4.0 – 4.3 mm long, 1.2 – 1.5 mm thick at base, with a short mesochile and tripartite, orange-yellow to bright yellow at base, white at apex (epichile); hypochile concave-saccate, ca. 3 mm long, inside bearing a pair of irregularly toothed warts on each side, honey yellow, bipartite or tripartite, somewhat dentate, apex obtuse; mesochile involute, folded inward, dentate to jagged along margin; epichile attenuate, narrower than hypochile, broad ligulate, 1.0 – 1.2 mm, margins slightly inflexed, apex obtuse, strongly recurved. Column ca. 2.5 mm long, dilated toward apex, without appendages; rostellum 1.5 – 1.8 mm long, deeply cleft or bifid, thickened toward the apex and clavate; stigma 2, lateral. Anther ovoid-lanceolate, bilocular, 2.3 – 2.5 mm long, apex acuminate. Pollinia 2, narrowly clavate, granulose, bipartite and basally attenuate into caudicles, attached to a single oblong viscidium.	en	Li, Lin, Li, Shi-Jin (2013): A new species of Zeuxine (Cranichidae; Orchidaceae) from Hainan, China. Phytotaxa 129 (1): 65-68, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.129.1.7, URL: https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/91b251fe-373f-3797-bc7b-9f616677018b/
2B7B87B1FFC13C441BEA4C2AFCAFFE26.taxon	distribution	Distribution and habitat: — The species has a restricted distribution and is so far known only from the type locality. It occurs in shaded rainforests on moist soil covered with leaf litter. Phenology: — Flowering from late August to early September.	en	Li, Lin, Li, Shi-Jin (2013): A new species of Zeuxine (Cranichidae; Orchidaceae) from Hainan, China. Phytotaxa 129 (1): 65-68, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.129.1.7, URL: https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/91b251fe-373f-3797-bc7b-9f616677018b/
2B7B87B1FFC13C441BEA4C2AFCAFFE26.taxon	etymology	Etymology: — The name of the species was chosen due to its ovate leaves. Taxonomic remarks: — Zeuxine ovalifolia overall is similar to Z. agyokuana Fukuyama (1934: 433) from the Ryukyus Islands and northern Taiwan, but Z. ovalifolia can be easily distinguished mainly in having much smaller ovate leaves (1.5 – 2.2 cm), alternate, not clustered apically, margin not undulate; broadly ovate bracts, margin sparsely ciliate towards the apex; falcate petals and conspicuously narrower, oblong-lanceolate dorsal sepal (index c. 5.5 / 1.7) entirely fused together, as compared to obovate petals and ovate dorsal sepal (index c. 4.0 / 2.8) connivent or adherent, overlapping each other, lip hypochile with warty, bi-trilobed calli, broad, not uncinate or hooked. Furthermore, Z. ovalifolia is yellow to orange-yellow in the largest part of the lip, whereas in Z. agyokuana it varies from white to pinkish white.	en	Li, Lin, Li, Shi-Jin (2013): A new species of Zeuxine (Cranichidae; Orchidaceae) from Hainan, China. Phytotaxa 129 (1): 65-68, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.129.1.7, URL: https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/91b251fe-373f-3797-bc7b-9f616677018b/
