identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
03B887838105954C4FDCDC58FC58FD8E.text	03B887838105954C4FDCDC58FC58FD8E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Neottia alternifolia (King & Pantl.) Szlach.	<div><p>Neottia alternifolia (King &amp; Pantl.) Szlach.</p><p>(Figs 1; 2)</p><p>Fragmenta Floristica et Geobotanica Supplementum 3: 117 (Szlachetko 1995).</p><p>Listera alternifolia King &amp; Pantl., Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Part 2. Natural History 65: 126 (King &amp; Pantling 1896). —</p><p>Type: India • Sikkim, Lachen Valley; c. 10 000 ft; fl. VII.1895; Pantling 390; lectotype (here designated): K [K000387548], photo! (Fig. 2a) • isolectotypes: AMES [AMES00101004], photo!; BM [BM000095769], photo!; BR [BR0000020451813], photo!; CAL [CAL0000000582, CAL0000000584, CAL0000000585, CAL0000000586, CAL0000000587]!; K [K000387550], photo!; L [L0061589], photo!; M [M0226165], photo!; P [P00333381, P00333382], photo!; Z [Z000078031], photo!; W [not found] .</p><p>Neottia motuoensis X.H.Jin, Phytotaxa 645 (2): 186 (Wen et al. 2024), syn. nov. —</p><p>Type: China • Xizang, Motuo County, Gedang Town, alpine conifer forest; c. 3600 m alt.; 28.VII.2023; Xiaohua Jin et al. 40291; holotype: PE (could not be traced even after pers. comm. with the collector and the herbarium curator) • isotype: PE (could not be traced even after pers. comm. with the collector and the herbarium curator).</p><p>PHENOLOGY. — Flowering and fruiting are from July-September.</p><p>HABITAT. — Terrestrial, growing in shady, moist areas, under the Rhododendron trees, marshy alpine places, and open alpine grassland, at an elevation of 3000-4000 m above msl.</p><p>DISTRIBUTION. — India (Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim); China.</p><p>ADDITIONAL SPECIMENS EXAMINED. — India • Arunachal Pradesh, Dibang Valley, Andra Omkar Camp, Beyond Mipi; 04.07.2002; M. Bhaumik &amp; M.K. Pathak 4185; ASSAM [ASSAM, acc. no. 67498, 64628], CAL [CAL0000090543] • Upper Siang, Sikyak-Kanebango Camp; 08.09.2009; M. Bhaumik 13252; CAL [CAL0000090542] • West Siang, Trek Junction- Renu-II Pass Slopes; 6.IX.2012; M. Bhaumik 29373; ARUN [ARUN, acc. no. 22469, 22470, 22471, 22472] • Sikkim, North District (Mangan District), Lachen Valley; VII.1897; Pantling 390; AMES [AMES01941079, photo], BM [BM000095770, photo], BR [BR0000020451820, photo], CAL [CAL0000000583], E [E00394243, photo], K [K000387549, photo], L [L0061588, photo], M (photo), P [P00333383, P00333384, photos], Z [Z000078032, photo] • Zema-II to Log Bridge; 3150 m alt.; 15.VI.1999; D. Maity &amp; A. Maity 21603; BSHC [BSHC, acc. no. 31815, 31816, 31817, 31818] • Shingba Rhododendron Sanctuary; 6.VIII.2014; D.K. Agrawala 38892; BSHC [BSHC00041594, BSHC00041595] • same data; c. 3500 m alt.; 14.VII.2019; S. Chakraborty &amp; S. Sarkar 40146; BSHC [BSHC00043141] • Yumthang (hotspring); 3600 m alt.; 19.VII.1987; D.C.S. Raju &amp; S. Singh 7722; BSHC • Yumthang Valley; 3560 m alt.; 13.VII.2019; S. Chakraborty &amp; S. Sarkar 40142; CAL [CAL0000266954, CAL0000266955] .</p><p>DESCRIPTION</p><p>Terrestrial autotrophs, uniformly green, small, 8-20 cm tall. Rhizome short, 2-2.5 mm in diameter, with few to numerous unbranched, fibrous, fasciculate roots. Stem 5-14 cm long, 1.5-2 mm in diameter, erect, slender, fleshy, cylindric, terete, uniformly green to yellowish-green, glabrous and smooth, sheathed at base; sheaths 1.2-2 cm long, oblanceolate, rounded at apex, adnate at most of the length to form a tubular shape. Leaves 2, alternate or sub-opposite, lower one borne almost midway along the stem, 6-16 × 3-8 mm, sessile, ovate to ovate-elliptic, truncate at base, entire, acute or subacute to obtuse at apex, conduplicate, glabrous, prominently 3-veined, mid vein and lateral veins converged at apex. Racemes terminal, laxly 3-10-flowered, flowers opening from the base to apex; peduncle 0.5-2.7 cm long, erect, cylindric, puberulent, green; rachis 1.2-3.5 cm long, erect, cylindric, puberulent, green; floral bracts 2.5-4 × 1-1.5 mm, elliptic-lanceolate, subacute at apex, persistent, glabrous, green, 1-veined. Flowers 4-6.5 mm long, 4-7 mm across, small, resupinate, distichous, nodding, spreading, pedicellate, uniformly green to olive green; pedicel and ovary 4-7 mm long, glabrous, ridged, green, abruptly swollen at the ovary region. Dorsal sepal 2.5-4 × 1-1.5 mm, spreading, lanceolate, entire, rounded or subacute at apex, green, concave, glabrous, with prominent midvein, adaxially carinate; lateral sepals similar, slightly falcate. Petals 2.5-4 × c. 1 mm, spreading, narrowly oblong, entire, rounded at apex, green, concave, glabrous, with prominent midvein, adaxially carinate. Labellum 3-5 × 2-2.5 mm, often longer than sepals, oblong-obovate to oblong-oblanceolate, lateral margins ciliolate, slightly deflexed apically, 3-veined; lateral veins branched and obscure towards the margins, a thick glossy depression arising from base and becoming obscure towards the apex; hypochile with two deltoid auricles at base, one at each side, and two small wart-like calli on both sides of the depression at the base; epichile 2-lobed, sinus short, lobules rounded and reflexed. Column 2-2.5 mm long, stout, slightly curved, green; anther terminal, oblongovoid, 2-chambered; clinandrium grooved; pollinia 2, mealy, granular; stigma terminal, suborbicular, concave, just below the rostellum; rostellum erect, ligulate, entire, acute or subacute. Capsule small, 4-5 mm long, ellipsoid to ovoid, ridged.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B887838105954C4FDCDC58FC58FD8E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Chakraborty, Sayak;Sarkar, Shuvadip;Bhattacharjee, Avishek;Agrawala, Dinesh Kumar;Maity, Debabrata	Chakraborty, Sayak, Sarkar, Shuvadip, Bhattacharjee, Avishek, Agrawala, Dinesh Kumar, Maity, Debabrata (2026): A new synonym of Neottia alternifolia (King & Pantl.) Szlach. (Orchidaceae) and lectotypification of its basionym. Adansonia (3) 48 (4): 21-28, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2026v48a4
