Yoania japonica ("Shokiran")

Japanese name: ショウキラン （鍾馗蘭）
Scientific name: Yoania japonica

[Overview]
A mycoheterotrophic plant 10–25 cm tall, found in deciduous forests.
It has a thickened rhizome that branches freely.
The stem is fleshy, upright, and white slightly tinged with reddish purple.
Semicircular scale-like leaves are densely arranged at the base of the stem and sparsely in the upper part.
A raceme at the stem tip bears 1–7 flowers sparsely.
The flowers are pale reddish purple; the sepals are oblong and the lateral petals are ovate.
The margins of the lip and lateral petals have dark purple spots.
The lip has a pale yellow spur, 1.2 cm long, that bulges forward.

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