Nervilia macroglossa (Hook.f.) Schltr. 1911 SECTION Linervia Schlechter Drawing by R Pantling © and Swiss Orchid Foundation and the Jany Renz Herbaria

Leaf Photo by © Mvh Egon

Common Name The Large Tongued Nervilia

Flower Size .4 to 1.6" [1 to 4 cm]

Found in Assam, the eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Myanamar and Vietnam in humus of quercus forests in hot valleys at elevations of 600 to 1800 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with a slender, glabrous stem enveloped by 2 distant clasping sheathsand carrying , orbicular-cordate, entire margins, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, single flowered inflorescence with small, linear-lanceolate, acute floral bract

Synonyms *Pogonia macroglossa Hook.f.1890

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Plantarum Fourth series vol 2 [22] Plate 2195 Hooker 1894 drawing fide; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 as Pogonia macroglossa drwaing fide; Orchid Genera in Thailand Vol VI Seidenfaden 1978 drawing ok; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002;

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