!Cryptochilus sanguineus Wall.
Flower Closeup Photos courtesy of Rudi Hromniak and his © and his Orchid Webpage
Different Inflorescence arrangement Photo by © Lourens Grobler
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Common Name The Blood-Red Cryptochilus
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in the eastern Himalayas, Assam India, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Myanamar, Thailand to Southern China in broad-leafed forests on mossy trees at elevations of 1800 to 2300 meters as a small to just medium sized, cool growing epiphyte or occasional lithophyte with egg-shaped pseudobulbs enveloped basally by sheaths and carrying 1 to 3, coriaceous, oblong to elliptic, drooping, acute, bright green leaves and blooms in the late spring and early summer on a terminal, erect to lateral, to 12" [to 30 cm] long, several to many flowered inflorescence carrying floral bracts that are shorter than the externally pubescent flowers which are drooping and all held to one side.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2007; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1982
