Calanthe chloroleuca Lindl. 1844 SECTION CalantheDrawing by © R Pantling and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Web Page

Common Name The Greenish-White Calanthe

Flower Size .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm]

Found in Assam India, eastern Himalayas and Nepal on mossy banks and dense forests at elevations of 660 to 3000 meters as a medium sized, warm to cold growing orchid with conical-ovoid to cylindric pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 4, elliptic to elli[ptic-lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the grooved, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect, puberulent, 19.8" to 22.8" to 12" [27 to 57 cm] long, laxly few to many flowered infloreccence with triangular-lanceolate, acute, adpressed bracts and lanceolate, acute flora lbracts and carrying fragrant flowers.

Synonyms Alismorkis chloroleuca (Lindl.) Kuntze1891; Calanthe galeata Lindl. 1855

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; The Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002

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