Sunipia scariosa Lindl 1833
Plants and flowers insitu Thailand Photos by © Manorot Tangsaveepha and hisButterfly and Orchids Website
EARLY
Common Name The Scarious Sunipia [refers to the floral bracts] - In China Da Bao Lan
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found in Nepal, northeastern India, Myanamar, Thailand, Vietnam and Yunann China on tree trunks in sparse woods at elevations of 900 to 2300 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with 3/4 to 1" [2 to 2.5 cm] between each ovoid to obliquely ovoid pseudobulbs carrying a single, oblong to linear-oblong, obtuse, emarginate to obliquely emarginate, basally narrowing, strongly keeled below leaf that blooms in the spring and early summer on a slender, glabrous, red brown, longer than the leaf, 4.8 to 14.4" [12 to 36 cm] long, laxly 12 to many flowered inflorecence with a slightly zigzag rachis, prominent, scarious [at flowering], ovate, floral bracts
Synonyms Ione racemosa Seidenfaden 1969 excludes syn Stelis racemose; Ione scariosa (Lindl.) King & Pantl.1898; Ione scariosa var magnibracteata Kerr 1933; Ione siamensis Rolfe 1908; Sunipia racemosa T. Tang & F.T. Wang 1951 excludes syn Stelis racemose
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 as Ione scariosa drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing fide; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; The Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002 drawing good; The Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing hmm; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Mountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 photo plant only; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo hmm; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing ok; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide;
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