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Shield orchid (Nervilia plicata)

Dlium Shield orchid (Nervilia plicata)

Shield orchid (Nervilia plicata) is a plant species in Orchidaceae, stems are very short and attached to the roots, leaf-shaped, heart with a central pulse base to flow to the side, the surface has thorns, dark green and grows attached to the moist soil surface.

N. plicata has a heart or circle shape with the center as a stem, like the shape of a leaf blade, soft, rounded base and ends. The veins are centered at the base and spread sideways to form folds.





The upper surface is dark green, growing short spines and growing outward more and more. The undersurface is smooth and maroon or pale red or whitish in color.

Shield orchid grows on moist but not flooded soils, tends to be sandy, tends to be rocky, tends to be poor in nutrients and karst. Grows in the rainy season.

TAXON

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Tribe: Nervilieae
Subtribe: Nerviliinae
Genus: Nervilia Comm. ex Gaudich. in Voy. Uranie: 422 (1829)
Species: Nervilia plicata (Andrews) Schltr. in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 45: 403 (1911)

HOMOTYPIC SYNONYMS

Arethusa plicata Andrews in Bot. Repos. 5 (1803)
Pogonia plicata (Andrews) Lindl. in Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl. (1840)

HETEROTYPIC SYNONYMS

Aplostellis velutina (C.S.P.Parish & Rchb.f.) Ridl. in Fl. Malay Penins. 4 (1924)
Cordyla discolor Blume in Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind. (1825)
Epipactis plicata Roxb. in Fl. Ind., ed. 1832. 3 (1832)
Nervilia apiculata Schltr. in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 1 (1911)
Nervilia biflora (Wight) Schltr. in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 39 (1906)
Nervilia dallachyana (F.Muell. ex Benth.) Schltr. (1906)
Nervilia discolor (Blume) Schltr. (1911)
Nervilia discolor var. purpurea (Hayata) S.S.Ying in Coloured Ill. Indig. Orchids Taiwan 1(2) (1977)
Nervilia plicata var. purpurea (Hayata) S.S.Ying in Coloured Ill. Indig. Orchids Taiwan 2 (1990)
Nervilia porphyrophylla Schltr. (1911)
Nervilia purpurea (Hayata) Schltr. in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 10 (1911)
Nervilia velutina (C.S.P.Parish & Rchb.f.) Schltr. (1911)
Pogonia biflora Wight in Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. 5 (1851)
Pogonia dallachyana F.Muell. ex Benth. in Fl. Austral. 6 (1873)
Pogonia discolor (Blume) Blume in Mus. Bot. 1(1849)
Pogonia pulchella Hook.f. in Bot. Mag. 111 (1885)
Pogonia purpurea Hayata in J. Coll. Sci. Imp. Univ. Tokyo 30(1) (1911)
Pogonia velutina C.S.P.Parish & Rchb.f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. London 30 (1874)
Roptrostemon discolor (Blume) Blume in Fl. Javae, Praef.: vi (1828)

PUBLICATIONS

Atthanagoda, A.G. & al. (2021). Taxonomic notes on the genus Nervilia (Nervilieae: Epidendroideae: Orchidaceae) in Sri Lanka. Rheedea 31: 161-174.

Averyanov, L.V. (2011). The orchids of Vietnam illustrated survey. Part 3. Subfamily Epidendroideae (primitive tribes - Neottieae, Vanilleae, Gastrodieae, Nervilieae). Turczaninowia 14(2): 15-100.

Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-71827. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Hermans, J. & Cribb, P.J. (2023). Flore des Mascareignes 170(1): 1-340. IRD Éditions, MSIRI, RBG-Kew, Paris.

Lucksom, S.Z. (2007). The orchids of Sikkim and North East Himalaya: 1-984. S.Z.Lucksom, India.

Misra, S. (2004). Orchids of Orissa: 1-774. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh, Dehra Dun.

Ormerod, P. (2017). Checklist of Papuasian Orchids: 1-494. Nature & Travel Books, Australia.

Ormerod, P., Kurzweil, H. & Watthana, S. (2021). Annotated List of Orchidaceae for Myanmar. Phytotaxa 481: 1-262.

Pandey, R.P. & Dilwakar, P.G. (2008). An integrated check-list flora of Andaman and Nicobar islands, India. Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany 32: 403-500.

Pedersen, H.Æ. & al. (2014). Flora of Thailand 12(2): 303-670. The Forest Herbarium, National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department, Bangkok.

Raskoti, B.B. (2009). The Orchids of Nepal: 1-252. Bhakta Bahadur Raskoti and Rita Ale.

Sittisujjatham, S. (2006). Wild Orchid of Thailand 1: 1-495. Amarin.

Song, X.Q., Meng, Q.W. & Luo, Y.B. (2007). New records of orchids from Hainan, China. Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica 45: 324-328.

Vij, S.P., Verma, J. & Kumar, C.S. (2013). Orchids of Himachal Pradesh: 1-275. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh, Dehra Dun.

Wood, J.J., Beaman, T.E., Lamb, A., Lun, C.C. & Beaman, J.H. (2011). The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu 2: 1-726. Natural history publications (Borneo), Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia.

Wu, Z. & Hong, D. (eds.) (2009). Flora of China 25: 1-570. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.

VERNACULAR NAME

English: Shield orchid, Ground orchid
Indonesian: Anggrek tanah
Javanese: Tlapakan, Kembang suku

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