Anoectochilus setaceus Blume 1825
Plant Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl ©
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Common Name The Bristly Anoectochilus
Flower Size less than 3/4" [less than 1.85 cm]
Found in Yunnan China, Assam India, Bangladesh, eatern Himalayas, Nepal, western Himalayas, Sri Lanka, Myanamar, Thailand, Vietnam, Sumatra and Java in broadleafed, evergreen, humid primary forests in soils dampened by mists and splash along steep watercourses at elevations of 1200 to 1800 meters as a creeping, ascending, warm to cool growing terrestrial orchid in rich humus in damp crevasses with subcordate to ovate-acute, velvety, dark lime-green reticulated with gold leaves that are puple black on the underside that blooms on a 10" [25 cm] long, several [5] flowered inflorescence with successively opening flowers occuring in the summer.
Synonyms Anoectochilus aureus K.Koch & Lauche 1857; Anoectochilus frederici-augusti Rchb.f. 1860; Anoectochilus regalis H.Low ex C.Morren 1862; Anoectochilus regalis Blume 1858; Anoectochilus roxburghii var. regalis (Blume) Pradhan 1976; Anoectochilus setaceopictus K.Koch & Lauche 1857; Anoectochilus setaceus Lindl. 1837; Anoectochilus yungianus S.Y.Hu 1971; Orchis picta Reinw. ex Lindl. 1857;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995 as A regalis; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Smith 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as A regalis; Encylopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; ; Indian Orchids: Guide to Identification and Culture Pradhan 1976; Orchid Digest Vol 44 No 3 1980 photo plant only; Orchid Digest Vol 48 No 4 12984 photo fide; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Cribb & Wood 1994 excluded taxa; Lindleyana Vol 14 No 4 2000; A to z Of SE Asian Orchids O'Byrne 2001; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 as A regalis; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos hmm
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