Aphyllorchis gollanii Duthie 1902
Photo by © Jin Xiaohua
Drawing by © Seidenfaden and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Drawings by © The Flora of China Website
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Common Name Golan's Aphyllorchis [English Collector in northwest India late 1800's early 1900's]
Flower Size 1.25" [3.3 cm]
Found in the the west central Himalayas and southern Tibet at elevations around 2200 to 3500 meters as a medium sized, cold growing mycoheterotrophic terrestrial with a rhizome giving rise to an erect, simple, stout stem with several, unequal, tubular, blunt sheaths that blooms in the later summer on a 16 to 20" [40 to 50 cm] long, crowded, 8 to 10 flowered inflorescence with elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, 5 to 7 nerved floral bracts that are longer than the slender, clavate ovary
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Vol IX Part II Duthie 1906 drawing fide; LANKESTERIANA 15(1): 7—50. Jeewan Singh Jalal & J. Jayanthi 2015; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;
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