Agrostophyllum myrianthum King & Pantl. 1898
Photos by Liu and Zaw 2023
Type drawing by © King & Pantling and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name or Meaning The Many Flowered Agrostophyllum
Flower Size .125" [3.1 mm]
Found in the eastern Himalayas at elevations around 365 meters as a medium to large sized, hot growing epiphyte with clustered, sub-cylindric, clavate stems carrying many linear-oblong, thicky membraneous, blunt and notched apically, narrowing below into the short, sub tubular sheath that blooms in the late summer on a hemisherical, 1.25" [3.1 cm] wide, densely many flowered inflorescence.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Orchids of the Sikkim Himalaya King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide;
Indian Orchids, Guide to Identification and Culture vol 2 Pradhan 1979;
Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002;
Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007
Orchids, Diversity and Conservation in Kachin state , northern Myanmar: 44 Liu & Zaw 2023 photo fide;
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