Pleione bulbocodioides (Franch.) Rolfe 1903 Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website

Photo courtesy of Marius Wasbauer Copyright ©

EARLY

Common Name The Bulbocodium-Like Pleione [A genus in the Iridaceae]

Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]

Found in Yunnan China on mossy rocks or in stony soils on shrubby to thinly wooded slopes or on damp cliffs at elevations of 900 to 3600 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with clustered, narrowly ovoid pseudobulbs carrying 1 to 2, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, plicate leaf that blooms in the spring and early summer on a single flowered, 3 to 8" [7.5 to 20 cm], sheathed inflorescence that arises at the same time as the leaf.

Synonyms *Coelogyne bulbocodioides Franch. 1888; Coelogyne delavayi Rolfe 1896; Coelogyne henryi Rolfe 1896; Coelogyne pogonioides Rolfe 1896; Pleione communis Gagnep. 1931; Pleione delavayi (Rolfe) Rolfe 1903; Pleione fargesii Gagnep. 1931; Pleione ganchuenensis Gagnep. 1931; Pleione henryi (Rolfe) Schltr. 1919; Pleione mairei Schltr. 1919; Pleione pogonioides (Rolfe) Rolfe 1903; Pleione rhombilabia Hand.-Mazz. 1936; Pleione smithii Schltr. 1924;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1987 as P Henryi & P delavayi; Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen Mori 1997