Peristylus lawii Wight 1851 Photo by © Alex Sirota and Flick River Site

Common Name Law's Peristylus

Flower Size small

Found in the western Himalayas, India, Nepal and Myanamar at elevations up to 1000 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with a slender stem with a few basal sheaths and carrying 3 to 5, clustered above the middle, narrowly lanceolate to elliptic, membraneous leaves that blooms in the fall and spring on a slender, narrow, 2 to 3" [5 to 7.5 cm] long, laxly flowered inflorescence

CAUTION I have no way of verifying this determination so use with caution.

Synonyms Habenaria lawii (Wight) Hook.f. 1890

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Vol IX Part II Duthie 1906 as Habenaria lawii drawing ok; Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991; The Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; The Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing ok;

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