Calanthe argenteostriata C.Z. Tang & S.J. Cheng 1981

another Angle Photos courtesy of © Lourens Grobler

Common Name The Silvery Striped Calanthe - in China Yin Dai Xia Ji Lan

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in southeastern China and Vietnam in broadleafed, evergreen, humid, primary forests in damp crevasses, on steep shady slopes in limestone karst regions at elevations of 100 to 1600 meters as a small to just large sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial or lithophyte with conical pseudobulbs carrying plicate, ovate, silver striped, dark green leaves that blooms on an erect, basal, to 24" [60 cm] long, several [10+] flowered inflorescence occuring in the spring.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Digest Vol 49 No 6 1985 photo fide; Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen Mori 1997; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; Lindleyana Vol 15 No 4 2000; 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; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide;

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