Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Kjell Nilsson

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Common Name The Green-Yellow Brown Ania - In China GAo Zhe Dai Chun Lan

Flower Size 1 2/5" [3.5 cm]

Found in Assam, the eastern Himalayas, Sikkim, China, Myanamar, Thailand and Vietnam in evergreen forests on open banks at elevations of 500 to 1600 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a pseudobulbs and a petiolate leaf that and blooms on a basal tall, stout, 3 to 5' [90 to 150 cm] long, racemose, many flowered inflorescence occuring in the late winter and spring with simultaneously opening flowers. Synonyms Ascotainia viridifusca (Hook.) Schltr. 1919; *Calanthe viridifusca Hook. 1852; Tainia viridifusca (Hook.) Benth. & Hook. f. 1883

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/95 as Tainia viridifusca; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as Tainia viridofusca; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Laurent 1992 As Tainia viridifusca; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 as Tainia viridifusca; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 as Tainia viridifusca drawing fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009 as Tainia viridifusca; Flora of China Illustrations Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide;

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