Pleione forrestii Schltr. 1912

Lip Detail Photos by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website

Common Name Forrest's Pleione [English Plant Collector China 1900's]

Flower Size 3 1/4" [8 cm]

Found in Myanamr and NW Yunnan Province China on moss-covered boulders and cliffs in shady side valleys at elevations of 2200 to 3100 meters as a mat building, small sized, cold growing terrestrial or lithophyte with narrow-ovoid or conical, dark green psuedobulb that can be flushed basally by dark purple and carries a single, apical elliptic-lanceolate leaf that blooms in the late winter and spring on an erect, to 2 3/4" [7cm] long, single flowered inflorescence that arises before the leaves of the next growth.

Synonyms Pleione alba H.Li & G.H.Feng 1984; Pleione forrestii f. alba (H.Li & G.H.Feng) Torelli & Riccab. 2000; Pleione forrestii var. alba (H.Li & G.H.Feng) P.J.Cribb 1999

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen Mori 1997

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