Androcorys gracilis (King & Pantl.) Schltr. 1920 Drawing by R Pantling

Common Name or Meaning The Graceful Androcorys

Flower Size 1/8" [3 mm]

Found in the eastern Himalayas and the Chinese Himalayas at high elevations as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial or lithophyte with a fusiform tuber giving rise to an erect stem with a few basal sheaths and carrying a single, ovate, obtuse, petiolate base leaf and blooms in the summer on an erect, slender, naked, 4 to 6" [10 to 15 cm] long, scattered, few flowered inflorescence

Synonyms *Herminium gracile King & Pantl. 1896; Monorchis gracilis (King & Pantl.) O.Schwarz 1949

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 as Herminium gracile drawing fide; Encylopedia of Cultivated Orchids 1965; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007;

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