Calanthe rosea (Lindl.) Benth. 1880 Photo courtesy of Igor Zhuravlev

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Common Name The Pink Calanthe

Flower Size 2 1/2" [6.25 cm]

Found in Myanamar and Thailand at eleations around 100 meters as a small sized, deciduous, hot to warm growing epiphyte or terrestrial orchid with elliptic to fusiform pseudobulbs carrying deciduous, oblong-lanceolate, plicate, glabrous, leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on a erect, 2 1/2' [75 cm] long, erect then arching, pubescent inflorescence with 7 to 15 flowers in a loose raceme occuring after leaf fall and before the new leaves begin to appear.

Synonyms Alismorchis rosea (Benth.) Kuntze 1891; *Limatodis rosea Lindl. 1852-3

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/95 as Limatodis rosea; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing fide; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas # 43-46 Thuniinae etc 1984 drawing fide; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; A to Z of SE Asian Orchids O'Byrne 2001; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001; Wild Orchids in Myanamar Vol 2 Tanaka 2004;

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