Anoectochilus roxburghii (Wall.) Lindl. 1832

Photo by Chaiwat Tang

Leaves

Photo by © Michael Dorris

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Common Name Roxburgh's Anoectochilus [English Botanical Director in India 1800's] - In China Jin Xian Lan - In Thailand Wan mai na

Flower Size less than 3/4" [less than 1.85 cm]

Found in the eastern Himalayas, Assam, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, western Himalayas, Bhutan, Thailand, Laos, Yunnan province of China, Vietnam, Java and Sumatra in shady broadleafed, evergreen, humid primary forests in soils dampened by mists and splash along steep watercourses at elevations of 300 to 1800 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial orchid in rich humus in damp crevasses with subcordate to ovate-acute, velvety, dark lime-green reticulated with gold leaves that are purple black on the underside that blooms in the fall on an erect, peduncle 2.8 to 6" [7 to 15 cm] long, provided with 2 to 3 pinkish, sterile bracts, glandular-pubescent, 8" [20 cm] long, 2 to 10 [rarely single] flowered inflorescence with pinkish, ovate, 1 to 3 veined, glandular pubescent dorsally, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate flowers .

Synonyms Anoectochilus latomaculatus Blume 1859; Anoectochilus lobbianus Planch. 1849; Anoectochilus regalis var. cordatus (B.S.Williams) B.S.Williams 1885; Anoectochilus regalis var. grandiflorus (B.S.Williams) B.S.Williams 1885; Anoectochilus setaceus var. cordatus B.S.Williams 1862; Anoectochilus setaceus var. grandiflorus B.S.Williams 1862; Anoectochilus xanthophyllus R.H. Torr. ex Rolfe 1887; Chrysobaphus roxburghii Wall. 1826; Zeuxine roxburghii (Wall.) M.Hiroe 1971

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