FLORA OF VIETNAM
Orchidaceae
Hetaeria biloba (Ridl.) Seidenf. et J.J.Wood
( = H. rotundiloba J.J.Smith)

Northern Vietnam, Lao Cai Prov., Van Ban Distr., Khanh Yen Ha municipality, elevation from Na Nheo village to the S from 680 to 880 m a.s.l. (around point 21°59′24′'N, 104°16′23′'E). Secondary evergreen broad-leaved wet submontane forest on very steep granite and quartzite slopes of river canyon. Terrestrial creeping herb in wet place. Flowers: lateral sepals brown-reddish with white tips and reddish spot, median sepal brownish-red with white tip, petals like side sepals, lip white, at base pink-brownish; column and anther white. Leaves light uniform green. Not common.
HAL 2287 (Photo) 14 March 2002
Collectors: L.Averyanov, P.K.Loc, D.T.Doan (FFI Project).