Zeuxine grandis Seidenf. 1978 Photo by and his Save Bird Website
Plant and Flowers in situ Thailand Photo by Kao Yai
LATE
and EARLY 
Common Name The Large Zeuxine - In Chian Da Hua Xian Zhu Lan
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found in China, Vietnam and Thailand in wet primary and secondary closed forests, often with bamboo, on shale, usually along rocky stream slopes at elevations of 600–1200 meters as a miniatuer to small sized, warm growing terrestrial with an erect stem carrying 2 to 6, usually withered at blooming, narrowly ovate, uniform dull green, acute, petiolate base leaves that blooms i nthe late winter and early spring on an erect, pubescent, to 2.4" [6 cm] long, 1 to 10- flowered inflorescence with triangular-ovate, acuminate, pubescent floral bracts.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Genera in Thailand Vol VI Seidenfaden 1978 drawing ok; Orchids of Vietnam, Illustrated survey, part 1 Averyanov 2008; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009;
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