Thelasis khasiana Hook.f. 1890 SECTION ThelasisDrawing by © Hooker's Icones Vol 22

Common Name The Khasia Hills Thelasis [An area of Assam]

Flower Size

Found in the Chinese Himalayas, Assam, Thailand and Vietnam at elevations around 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to coool growing terrestrial with obturbinatus to depressed globose pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, spathulate, obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later summer on a basal, erect, flexuous, 2" [5cm] long, severral to many flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Thelasis pygmaea var. khasiana (Hook.f.) Schltr. 1900

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones 22 1893 Hooker drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitnand 1959 drawing fide;

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