Bhutanthera albomarginata (King & Pant.) Renz 2001 Photo by Cedric Basset © and gardenbreizh.com

Inflorescence Photo by © India Mike.com

LATER EARLY

Common Name or Meaning The White Margin Bhutanthera

Flower Size 1.7 to .2" [4 to 5 mm]

Found in the Chinese Himalayas, eastern Himalayas and Nepal on yak Grazed slopes at elevations of 3720 to 4270 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial with depressed-globose tubers giving rise to a stout, basally sheathed, glabrous, stem carrying 2, remote, unequal, orbicular-elliptic to oblong, obtuse, narrowing below into the basally clasping leaves that blooms in the later summer and early fall on an erect, terminal, glabrous, .4 to 1.4" [1 to 3.5 cm] long, subdensely 5 to 20 flowered inflorescence with a large, leaf-like, lanceolate, spreading floral bracts.

Synonyms *Habenaria albomarginata King & Pantl. 1898; Peristylus albomarginatus (King & Pant.) K.Y.Lang 1996

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 as Habenaria albo-marginatum drawing ok; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing ok;

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------