Pleione maculata (Lindl.) Lindl. 1851-2 SECTION Pleione Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website.

Specimen Plant Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website.

Flower Closeup Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website

Common Name The Spotted Pleione - In China Qui Hua Du Suan Lan

Flower Size 1 3/4” [4.5 cm]

Found in Yunnan China, Assam India, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Laos, Myanamar, Thailand and Vietnam in highland primary cloud forests at elevations of 600 to 2000 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with barrel-shaped, apically conical, green spotted with purple pseudobulbs carrying in apical pairs on mature pseudobulbs and blooms on a very short, to 2 flowered inflorescence with large inflated, truncate floral bracts arising in the fall with fragrant flowers.

Synonyms Coelogyne arthuriana Rchb.f. 1881; Coelogyne diphylla (Lindl. & Paxton) Lindl. 1854; Coelogyne maculata Lindl. 1830; Coelogyne maculata var. virginea Rchb.f. 1887; Gomphostylis candida Wall. ex Lindl. 1830; Pleione autumnalis S.C.Chen & G.H.Zhu 1999; Pleione diphylla Lindl. & Paxton 1851; Pleione maculata var. virginea (Rchb.f.) Karth. 1989

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 as Coelogyne macualta drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 10 1978 photo; Orchid Digest Vol 48 No 4 1984 photo fide; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/95 as Coelogyne maculata; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen Mori 1997; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 4 1998 photo; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 4 2005 photo; Orchid Digest Vol 71 No 1 2007 photo; The Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 11 2008 photo; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide;

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