Chusua chrysea (W.W.Sm.) P.F.Hunt 1971Photo by Christian Lueg and the Ground Orchid Website

Common Name The Yellow Chusua - In China Huang Hua Xiao Hong Men Lan

Flower Size .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm]

Found in the Chinese and eastern Himalayas in open grassy meadows at elevations of 4110 to 4270 meters as a mini-miniature szied, cold growing epiphyte with a globose tuber giving rise to a stem enveloped by 1 to 2, leafless sheaths below and 2 basal, subopposite, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, acute leaves and bracteate above that blooms in the summer on an erect, single flowered inflorescence with a large, leaf-like, oblanceolate, acute floral bract '

Synonyms *Habenaria chrysea W.W.Sm.1921; Orchis chrysea (W.W.Sm.) Schltr. 1924; Ponerorchis chrysea (W.W.Sm.) Soó 1966

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Mountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing hmm

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