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Calanthe discolor   (redirected from: Calanthe discolor f. kanashiroi (Fukuy.) K.Nakaj.)
Family: Orchidaceae
[Alismorkis discolor (Lindl.) Kuntze, moreCalanthe amamiana var. latilabellata Ida, Calanthe cheniana Hand.-Mazz., Calanthe discolor f. kanashiroi (Fukuy.) K.Nakaj., Calanthe discolor f. quinquelamellata M.Hiroe, Calanthe discolor f. rosea (Hatus.) Honda, Calanthe discolor f. rufoaurantiaca (Iwata) Honda, Calanthe discolor f. viridialba (Maxim.) Honda, Calanthe discolor var. amamiana (Fukuy.) Masam., Calanthe discolor var. divaricatipetala Ida, Calanthe discolor var. kanashiroi Fukuy., Calanthe discolor var. tokunoshimensis (Hatus. & Ida) Hatus., Calanthe esquirolei Schltr., Calanthe tyoh-harae Makino, Calanthe variegata Scheidw.]
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Japan Flora: Rhizomes short and thick; leaves 2 or 3, narrowly obovate-oblong, 15-25 cm. long, 4-6 cm. wide, acute, petiolate, glabrous; scapes 30-50 cm. long, puberulent in upper part, with 1 or 2 sheathing scales; racemes 5-15 cm. long, loosely about 10-flow- ered, the bracts lanceolate, 5-10 mm. long, scarious; sepals spreading, narrowly ovate, 15-20 mm. long, acute or mucronate, narrowed towaid the base, dark brown to greenish; petals slightly smaller than the sepals, obovate-spathulate or narrowly ovate; lip flabellate, as long as the sepals, rose or white, deeply 3-lobed, with 3 median ridges, the lateral lobes ascending, broadly cuneate, entire, the terminal lobe broadly
cuneate, bifid; spur 5-10 mm. long. Woods in foothills;

Hokkaido (sw. distr.), Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu; common.

var. bicolor (Lindl.) Makino. Flowers larger, not fully expanding; terminal lobe of lip not prominently lobed. Apr.-May. Kyushu.
f. sieboldii (Decne.) O hwi.Flowers clear yellow.

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