Panisea demissa (D. Don) Pfitzer 1907

Plant and Flowers Photo courtesy of Dale and Deni Borders.

Common Name The Humble Panisea

Flower Size .4 to .45" [1 to 1.2 cm]

A miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte from the eastern Himalayas, Assam, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Myanamar, Thailand, Laos, southern China and Vietnam at elevations of 1500 to 3300 meters with close set, narrowly ovoid to ovoid pseudobulbs carrying 1 to 2, lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, plicate, acute, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, decurved, laxly 5 to 8 flowered, slender, 1.2 to 1.8" [3 to 4.5 cm] long, racemose inflorescence that is basally sheathed and has ovate, acute membaneous, persistent floral bracts all arising on a new growth.

Synonyms Coelogyne parviflora Lindl. 1833; *Dendrobium demissum D. Don 1825; Panisea parviflora (Lindl.) Lindl. 1854; Panisea reflexa Lindl. 1854

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Beautiful Orchids of Nepal Rajbhandari & Bhattarai 2001; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002

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