Calanthe yuksomnensis Lucksom 1998 Photo courtesy of The Daily Green Website.

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Common Name The Yoksam Calanthe [A region of western Sikkim]

Flower Size 1 1/4" to 1.7" [3.3 to 4.2 cm]

Found in western Sikkim on the forest florr at elevations of 1400 to 1800 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing terretrial with ovoid pseudobulbs carrying 3, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, channeled petiolate base leaves that blooms in the later spring on an erect, terete, puberulous, 8 to 13.4" [20 to 33 cm] long, 2 to 10 flowered inflorescence with a single lanceolate bract and lanceolate floral bracts and carrying mildly flagrant flowers

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002 Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007

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