Calanthe whiteana King & Pantl. 1846 SECTION Calanthe

Drawing by © Liu Chunrong and Flora of China Website

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Common Name White's Calanthe [English Woman Plant Collector in India 1800's] - In China Si Chuan Xia Ji Lan

Flower Size 3/4" [1.8 cm]

Found in the the eastern Himalayas, Assam, Myanamar and north and south western Sichuan province of China in forests and shrubby slopes at elevations of 1000 to 1800 meters as a large sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with conic pseudobulbs enveloped by leaf sheaths and carrying usually 3, not well developed at blooming, suberect, not deciduous, ensiform to narrowly oblong-oblanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate-like, pseudostem base leaves that blooms in the later spring on an erect, axillary, stout, puberulent, to 28" [to 70 cm] long, 10 to 20 flowered inflorescence with 1 to 2, tubular sheaths and persistent, reflexed, narrowly lanceolate, sparsely puberulent floral bracts.

Synonyms Calanthe wardii W.W.Sm. 1921

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide

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