Otochilus porrectus Lindl.1830 Photo © by Pantip Website

Plant and Flowers Photo © by National Science and Technology Service Website

Common Name The Porrect Otochilus - In China Er Chun Lan

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in the western Himalayas, Chinese Himalayas, Assam, Nepal, eastern Himalayas Myanamar, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam on trees or rocks in forests at elevations of 1000 to 2100 meters as a small sized, warm to cool groing epiphyte or lithophyte with many subcylindrical, arising from the apex of the last pseudobulb and appearing to be a pendulous or creeping stem and carrying 2 apical, narrowly elliptic to narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, petilolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, 6 to 8" [15 to 20 cm] long, racemose, laxly several flowered inflorescence arising from between the apical leaves and carries fragrant flowers .

Synonyms *Coelogyne porrecta (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1862; Otochilus forrestii W.W.Sm. 1921; Otochilus fragrans (Wall. ex Lindl.) G.Nicholson 1886; Otochilus latifolius Griff. 1851; Tetrapeltis fragrans Wall. ex Lindl. 1833

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Mountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 photo fide; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos ok

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