Erythrodes hirsuta (Griff.) Ormerod 1997 Drawing by © Martin "Epicphals" and Flickr orchid photo Website

Drawing Drawing by © R Pantling

EARLY

Common Name or Meaning The Hairy Erythrodes - In China Ying Mao Qian Chun Lan

Flower Size .2" [5mm]

Found in the Chinese Himalayas Assam, eastern Himalayas, Myanamar, Thailand and Vietnam in evergreen broadleaved forests at elevations of 100 to 1500 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with an erect green stem carrying 6 to 7, green, ovate, oblique, 3 veined abaxially, acute apically, obtuse below inot the petiolate, dilated base leaves with an amplexicaule sheath that blooms in the winter and early spring on an erect, pubescent, 4.8 to 10.4" [12 to 26 cm] long, densely few to several flowered inflorescence with 2 to 5 sterile bracts and lanceolate, pubescent, acuminate floral bracts.

Synonyms Erythrodes herpysmoides (King & Pantl.) Schltr. 1911; Erythrodes seshagiriana A.N.Rao 1997; *Goodyera hirsuta Griff. 1851; Physurus herpysmoides King & Pantl. 1896; Physurus hirsutus (Griff.) Lindl. 1857;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 as Physurus herpysmoides drawing fide; Orchid Genera in Thailand Vol VI Seidenfaden 1978 as E herpyrmoides drawing fide; The Orchids Of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002 drawing fide; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Orchidaceae Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; Flora Of Thailand Orchidaceae Vol 12 Part 1 Pedersen, Kurzweil, Suddee & Cribb 2011 drawing good

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