Sunipia annamensis (Ridl.) P.F.Hunt 1971Photo by © Oo and Ben Orchid Website

EARLY

Common Name The Annam Sunipia - In China Lu Hua Da Bao Lan

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in southern Yunnan? and northern Thailand and Vietnam in forests on trees at elevations around 2400 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with a creeping rhizome with .6" [1.5 cm] between each ovoid pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, erect, oblong, thickly leathery, obtuse and retuse apcially, contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the early fall on an erect, 6 to 14" [15 t o35 cm] long, erect, racmose, 4 to6 flowered inflorescence with 6 sheaths and ovate to triangular, membraneous, acuminate apically floral bracts

Synonyms *Ione annamensis Ridl.1921

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos ok

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