Arachnis labrosa (Lindl. & Paxton) Rchb.f. 1886 Photo courtesy of David Jubineau

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Common Name The Lip-Like Arachnis - In China Zhai Chun Zhi Zhu lan

Flower Size 2"+ [5 cm]

Found in the Eastern Himalayas, Assam India, Bhutan, Sikkim, Myanamar, Thailand, Vietnam, Hainan and Yunnan China to Taiwan in sparse woods and on forests margins on trunks of large trees and on rocks at elevations of 800 to 1700 meters as a large sized, hot to warm growing, monopodial epiphyte or lithophyte with an elongate, stout, slightly woody stem carrying 5 to 8, keeled, coriaceous, linear-oblong, unequally bilobed apically, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the later summer with up to 10, distant flowers on an axillary, racemose to sometimes branching, 2' [60 cm]+ long, pendant inflorescence and carrying waxy, fragrant flowers

Synonyms Arachnanthe bilinguis Benth. 1881; Arachnis bilinguis Benth. 1881; Armodorum labrosum (Lindl. ex Paxton) Schltr. 1911; Arrhynchium labrosum Lindl. ex Paxton 1850; Renanthera bilinguis Rchb. f. 1854; Renanthera leptantha Fukuy. ex A.T.Hsieh, 1955

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854 as Renanthera bilinguis; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 as Renenathera labrosa; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 as Renanthera bilinguis drawing; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/95 as Arachnanthe bilinguis; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 as Arachnanthe bilinguis drawing fide; The Orchids of Malaya Holtum 1953; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 4 1958 Drawing as A bilinguis; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as Armodorum labrosum Drawing fide; Encylopedia of Cultivated Orchids 1965 as Armodorum labrosum AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 8 1983 photo as Arachnanthe bilinguis; Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen Mori 1997; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; The Atlas of Wild Orchids in Hainan Island, China Shenyan and Junmei 2010 photo fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide;

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