Epigeneium fargesii (Finet) Gagnep. 1932 SECTION Epigeneium

Flower Closeup Photos by © Eric Hunt and his Orchid Species Photo Website

Common Name Farges' Epigeneium [English Missionary and Plant Collector China late 1800's early 1900's] - In China Dan Ye Hou Chun Lan

Flower Size 1 to 1.2" [2.5 to 3 cm]

Found in the Chinese Himalayas, Bhutan, Thailand and Taiwan along valleys on rocks or in forests on tree trunks at elevations of 1200 to 1775 as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte with .2 to .4" [.5 to 1 cm] between each ribbed, ellipsoid-fusiform, weakly curved pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, erct, plicate, single veined, coriaceous, obovate-oblong, obtuse, narrowing below into the petiollste base leaf that blooms in the spring on a racemose, single flowered inflorescence with ovate, acute floral bracts

Synonyms *Dendrobium fargesii Finet 1903; Desmotrichum fargesii (Finet) Kraenzl.1910; Sarcopodium fargesii (Finet) Tang & F.T.Wang 1951

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; The Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing ok; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide;

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