IOSPE PHOTOS

Sunipia cirrhata (Lindl.) P.F.Hunt 1971Photo by © Karl Senghas and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria

DrawingDrawing by © R Pantling

Common Name The Tendril-Like Sunipia - In China Yun Nan Sa Bao Lan

Flower Size .8 to 1" [2 to 2.5 cm]

Found in the Chinese Himalayas, Assam, the eastern Himalayas, Nepal and Myanamar at elevations of 1600 to 2000 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with an elongate, creeping rhizome giving rise to ovoid-conical to obpyriform, rugose, bright green pseudobulbs that are 1.2 to 1.4" [3 to 3.5 cm] apart and carrying a single, apical, erect, oblong to oblanceolate, obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a slender, sheathed, glabrous, 8 to 10.8" " [20 to 27 cm] long, laxly 4 to 8 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, papery, acute, distichous, suberect floral bracts and carrying honey-scented flowers

Synonyms Bulbophyllum cirrhatum Hook.f. 1890; Bulbophyllum mishmeense Hook.f. 1890; Bulbophyllum paleaceum (Lindl.) Benth. & Hook.f. 1883; *Ione cirrhata Lindl.1853; Ione fuscopurpurea Lindl. 1853; Ione paleacea Lindl. 1853; Phyllorkis cirrhata (Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891; Phyllorkis mishmeensis (Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891; Phyllorkis paleacea (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Sunipia fuscopurpurea (Lindl.) P.F.Hunt 1971; Sunipia paleacea (Lindl.) P.F.Hunt 1971

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones 21 Hooker 1890 as Bulbophyllum cirrhatum drawing fide; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 as Ione palacea drawing fide; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002 as Ione cirrhata; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 as Ione cirrhata; 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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