Anoectochilus brevilabris Lindl. 1840
Photos by © Jay Pfahl
Drawing by © J D Hooker
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Common Name The Short-Lipped Anoectochilus
Flower Size 1/2" [1.2 cm]
Found in the eastern Himalayas, Bhutan and Assam India at elevations of 900 to 1500 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a loose rosette of subcordate to broadly elliptic, acute, velvety, maroon to garnet base reticulated in gold to copper leaves that are matt-red green on the underside and blooms in the summer through mid fall on a 7.2" [18 cm] long, terminal, pubescent inflorescence with several to many flowers.
Synonyms Anoectochilus brevilabris var. gigantea Pradhan 1976; Anoectochilus chapaensis Gagnep. 1931; Anoectochilus griffithii Hook.f. 1890; Anoectochilus tridentatus Seidenf. 1992; Dossinia marmarata Lindl. 1857
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Plantarum Vol 22 Hooker 1893 as Anoectochilus griffithii drawing hmm; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/95 Indian Orchids; Guide to Identification and Culture Pradhan 1976 as A griffithii drawing good; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/95 Indian Orchids; Guide to Identification and Culture Pradhan 1976 drawing photo fide; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994 as A tridentatus; The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1992; Orchid Digest Vol 65 #1 2001 photo fide; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; 100 Sikkim Himalayan Orchids Pradhan 2005 leaves only photo hmm; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 photo not = L discolor; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 as A griffithii; Orchids of Vietnam, Illustrated survey, part 1 Averyanov 2008?; AOS Bulletin vol 78 No 11 2009 photo fide; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994 as A chapaensis; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009 as A chapaensis; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photo as A chapaensis plant only ok; A review on Spiranthoideae genera in Arunachal Pradesh Bulletin of Arunachal Forest Research 27 (1&2) : 1-33, Rao 2011; A Century of New Orchid Records in Bhutan Royal Government of Bhutan 2017 drawing/photo fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo good;
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