Pleione hookeriana (Lindl.) Kuntze 1911

Another Angle Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website

Another Flower? Photo courtesy of Noble Bashor

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Common Name Hooker's Pleione [Director of Kew- English Orchid botanist 1800's]

Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]

Found from the eastern Himalayas, Assam, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Myanamar, Thailand, Laos and southern China in mixed bamboo and rhodedendron scrub on mossy rocks and trees in deep shade at elevations of 2200 to 4200 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte, lithophyte or terrestrial, deciduous species with conical, clustered pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, persistent, plicate, elliptic-lanceolate, acute leaf that tapers gradually to the base and blooms as the new growths are appearing in the mid-spring and summer on a slender, sheathed, 4 3/4" [12 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with tubular, obliquely truncate, obtuse floral bract.

Synonyms *Coelogyne hookeriana Lindl. 1854; Coelogyne hookeriana var. brachyglossa Rchb.f. 1887; Coelogyne schilleriana Rchb. f. 1858; Pleione hookeriana var. brachyglossa (Rchb.f.) Karth. 1989; Pleione laotica Kerr 1933; Pleione schilleriana (Rchb. f.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen Mori 1997; Beautiful Orchids of Nepal Rajbhandari & Bhattarai 2001; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002

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