Sunipia bicolor (Lindl.) Lindl. 1833 NO Photo

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Common Name The Two Colored Sunipia

Flower Size 1" [2.2 cm]

This species is from Sikkim, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanamar, Thailand and Yunnan China at elevations of 900 to 2700 meters as a miniature sized epiphyte and sometimes lithophyte and is grown cool to cold, shady and with regular year round watering and is best mounted on tree fern. The orchid has a branching rhizome with .6 to 1.25" [1.5 to 3.2 cm] between each obpyriform to flask shaped, apically narrowing, broad based pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, linear-oblong, obliquely emarginate, strongly keeled beneath, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that will bloom in the summer and fall on a basal, erect, 2" [5 cm] long, thin, several [1 to 8] flowered inflorescence with tubular, subacute basal sheaths and lanceolate, acute floral bracts the nodding flowers facing in all directions and held at leaf length.

Synonyms *Bulbophyllum bicolor [Lindley] Hkr.f 1890; Dipodium khasianum Griff 1851; Ione bicolor Lindley 1853; Ione khasiana [Griff.] Lindley 1853;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The 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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