| English Name | Entire Lip Ginger |
|---|---|
| Status in China | Endangered (EN) |
Description:
Perennial herbs, 40-100 cm tall, with branched rhizomes. Leaves lanceolate, 15-18 cm long, about 3 cm wide, adaxilly glabrous, abaxilly pubescent or pilose. Spike arising from rhizomes, ca. 1/2 embedded in ground, bracts lanceolate, 2-3 cm long. Corolla ivory white; lobes lanceolate, 1.8 cm long; lip elliptic; lateral lobes reduced to rounded teeth or absent. Stamens 1; anther sessile, ca. 8 mm long, connective appendage ca. 7 mm long.
Distribution:
Endemic to Hong Kong, only known in a few localities in Mount Gough.
Habitat and Ecology:
On shade places under forest. Flowering: Apr-Oct.
This rare species was first discovered in 1881 from Mount Gough and since then no record has been added.
References:
Hance, H. F., 1882: Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 20(231):80.
Dunn, S. T. & W. J. Tutcher, 1912: Flora of Kwangtung & Hong Kong 272. HMSO, London.
Wu, Delin, 2000: Flora of China 24: 327. Science Press, Beijing & Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis.
