Epigeneium treutleri (Hook.f.) Ormerod 2000 Drawing by © Flora of China Website

Part Shade Spring

Common NameTreutler's Epigenieum [British Orchid Collector later 1800's]

Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]

Found in Yunnan China, Sikkim and Myanamar as a miniature sized epiphyte with .4 to 2.6" [1 to 6.5 cm] between each small, ovoid pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, erect, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, sessile leaves that blooms in the spring on a hysteranthous, .72 to .8" [1.8 to 2 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with sub-obovate, obtuse-mucronate, membraneous floral bracts.

Synonyms *Coelogyne treutleri Hook.f. 1890; Epigeneium yunnanense Tang & Z.H.Tsi 1984; Pleione treutleri (Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones 22 Hooker 1892 as Coelogyne treutleri drawing fide; The Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002

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