Onoe orchid (Chondradenia fauriei)

Japanese: オノエラン(尾上蘭) - オノエラン（英語表記）Chondradenia fauriei

A perennial plant of the Orchidaceae family. Its Japanese name means "orchid that grows on the top of the mountain" and it grows in the sunny grasslands of high mountains from central Honshu northward. The stem is about 8-15 cm tall and completely hairless. Two (3) elliptical, sessile leaves, each about 10 cm long and 4 cm wide, grow from the base of the plant. From June to August, three or four white flowers half open in the same direction. The lip petal has a W-shaped yellow part at the base of the inner surface, and the tip is slightly concave in the center. The spur is about 4 mm long, elliptical-spherical, and narrow at the base. A species endemic to Japan, this genus is distinguished from the closely related Orchis genus by its string-like rhizomes, not bulbous, and by the fact that the adhesive bodies of the pollen masses are exposed and not enclosed in vesicles.

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Japanese:

ラン科の多年草。和名は峰の頂上に生えるランの意で，本州中部以北の高山の向陽の草地に生える。茎は高さ8～15cmほどで全体無毛。株もとから長さ 10cm，幅 4cmほどの楕円形で無柄の葉を2 (3) 枚出す。6～8月，3～4個の白色花を同方向に向けて半開する。唇弁は内面基部にW字状の黄色部があり，先端中央がややくぼむ。距は長さ約 4mmで，楕円状球形をなし，基部がくびれる。日本の特産種で，この属は近縁のハクサンチドリ属 Orchisとは，根茎が紐状で球根状にならないこと，花粉塊の粘着体が小胞に包まれず露出していることで区別される。

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