Podochilus khasianus Hook.f. 1890 Drawing by © Cai Shuqin and The FLora of China Website

Common Name or Meaning The Khasia Podochilus [An Area of India] - In China Bing Chun Lan

Flower Size very small

Found in Guangdong, southwestern Guangxi, Hainan and southern Yunnan provinces of China, the eastern Himalayas, Assam, Bangladesh and Vietnam in forests along streams on trees at elevations of 400 to 1900 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with subterete, tufted, ascending, leafy stems enveloped completely by sheaths and carrying many, distichous, slightly dark brown when dried, narrowly oblong to narrowly oblong-lanceolate, often more or less falcate, somewhat fleshy, articulate, incurved margins, acuminate to acute apically, narrowing below into the amplexicaul, tubular base leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal or lateral; ,[3 to 5 mm] long, 2 to 4 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, 3 to 5 veined floral bracts.

Synonyms Podochilus chinensis Schltr. 1924; Podochilus intermedius Aver. 1988

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones 22 Hooker 1893 drawing good; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing not; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photo plant only

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