Calanthe alismifolia Lindl. 1855 SECTION Calanthe Photos courtesy of Jean Claude Geroge and His Orchidorama Web Page

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Common Name The Water-Plaintain Leaf-Like Calanthe - In China Ze Xie Xia Ji Lan

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Japan, the Ryukyus, Taiwan, Assam India, eastern Himalayas, Bhutan, Sikkim, western Himalayas, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Yunnan and Xizang China and Vietnam in hot tropical valleys among grasses and at bases of rocks or in riverine forests at elevations of 660 to 2100 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial orchid with a woody rhizome giving rise to slender, cylindric, tapering pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 3, strongly veined, elliptic to ovate-elliptic, acuminate, petiolate base leaves and blooms in the late spring and summer on a erect, terminal, racemose to sub-corymbose successively many flowered inflorescence basally sheathed by distant, lanceolate, acute, pilose pubescent sheaths and spreading to reflexed, ovate, lanceolate, acuminate, floral bracts

Synonyms Alismorchis alismifolia (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Alismorchis japonica (Blume ex Miq.) Kuntze 1891; Calanthe austrokiusiuensis Ohwi 1936Calanthe fauriei Schltr. 1919; Calanthe furcata f. fauriei (Schltr.) M.Hiroe 1971; Calanthe furcata var. alismifolia (Lindl.) M.Hiroe 1971; Calanthe japonica Blume ex Miq. 1866; Calanthe nigropuncticulata Fukuy. 1934; Calanthe okinawensis Hayata 1911

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Vol IX Part II Duthie 1906; AOS Bulletin Vol 4 1958 Drawing; Orchids of Southern Ryukyu Islands Garay & Sweet 1974 Drawing fide; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas # 43-46 Thuniinae etc 1984 photo ok; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; The Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing fide; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Maountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 type sheet; 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 Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide

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