Pogonia yunnanensis Finet 1897

Photo by Jin Xiaohua

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Common Name The Yunnan Pogonia

Flower Size

Found in southeastern Tibet, western Sichuan and northwestern Yunnan provinces of China and northern Myanmar in alpine grasslands and Abies fir forests at elevations of 2300 to 3300 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial with an ellipitc , slightly fleshy, contracted and amplexical basally, acute apically leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a terminal, suberect, short to 1" [2.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with narrowly elliptic, narrowly voate r narrowly ovate-lanceolate, as long to somewhat longer than the ovary floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of China Vol 25 Orchidaceae Zhengyi, Raven and Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Orchidaceae Zhengyi, Raven and Deyuan 2010; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide

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