Agrostophyllum planicaule (Wall. ex Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1864
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Common Name or Meaning The Flat Stemmed Agrostophyllum
Flower Size .15" [3 to 4mm]
Found in Assam, the eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Andaman Islands, Myanamar, Thailand Cambodia and Vietnam as a mean and weedy orchid with a fleshy flattened stem carrying 1 to 2, oblong leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a globose-capitate, densely many flowered, short inflorescence with fibrous-membraneous, lanceolate, subacute, brown floral bracts.
Synonyms Agrostophyllum hasseltii Rchb.f. 1864; Agrostophyllum khasianum Griff. 1844; Appendicula hasseltii Wight 1851; *Eria planicaulis Wall. ex Lindl. 1840
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995 as A khasianum; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 as A khasianum drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as A khasianum; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide;
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