!Hancockia uniflora Rolfe 1903

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Common Name The Single Flowered Hancockia - In China Dian Lan

Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]

Found in southern Yunnan province of China, Japan, Ryukyu Islands and Vietnam in montane forests at elevations around 1200 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with loosely arranged on the rhizome, narrowly cylindric pseudobulbs carrying single, apical, elliptic-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, papery, acute, subrounded below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a.8" [2 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with basal membraneous tubular sheaths and cymbiform floral bracts.

Synonyms Chrysoglossella japonica Hatus. 1967; Hancockia japonica (Hatus.) Maek. 1971

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Die Orchideen Band 3 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas Liferung #14 820 - 880 1984 drawing fide; Die Orchideen Band 3 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas Liferung #14 820 - 880 1984 as H japonica; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Illustrations Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos ok; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 2 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;

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