Neottia kiusiana was described by Hashimoto & Hatusima (1991) as glossy light-brown saprophytic plant resembling Neottia nidus-avis. They found two specimens on Kyushu Island, Japan in the evergreen broad-leaved forest. It differs from Neottia nidus-avis in having a hairy rhachis and ovaries, shorter lobes of the lipsand obtusely triangular stigmalobes and by having a short but apparent filament in early flowering. This species was declared extinct as it was not found in the type localities in 2012 (Suetsugu 2018) but it was synonymized with N. hypocastanoptica Lee (2002) by Yukawa et al. (2009) expanding the distribution of this rare species from western Jeju Island to Honshu Island in the East. WCSP (2021) lists this species as hemicryptophyte not as mycoheterotroph.
Neottia kiusiana Hashimoto & Hatusima 1991
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