Cephalantheropsis obcordata (Lindl.) Ormerod 1998 Photos by © David Kuehn

Inflorescence Photos courtesy of © Mary Mendum, André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen © and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

Common Name The Reverse Heart-Shaped Cephalantheropsis

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Chinese Himalayas, China, Japan, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Laos, Myanamar, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, the Moluccas and the Philippines as a small to medium sized terrestrial orchid with a stout stem carrying several, plicate, elliptic, acute, gradually narrowing below into the clasping base leaf that blooms on an axillary, erect, slender, to 14" [35 cm] long, racemose, several to many flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Alismorchis gracilis (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Alismorchis tubifera (Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891; *Bletia obcordata Lindl. 1831; Calanthe bursicola Gagnep. 1950; Calanthe gracilis Lindl. 1833; Calanthe ramosii Ames 1912; Calanthe tubifera Hook.f. 1890; Calanthe venusta Schltr. 1919; Cephalantheropsis gracilis (Lindl.) S.Y.Hu 1972; Cephalantheropsis halconensis (Ames) S.S.Ying 1988; Cephalantheropsis venusta (Schltr.) S.Y.Hu 1972; Gastrorchis gracilis (Lindl.) Aver. 1988; Limatodis gracilis (Lindl.) Lindl. 1855; Paracalanthe gracilis (Lindl.) Kudô 1930; Paracalanthe venusta (Schltr.) Kudô 1930; Phaius gracilis (Lindl.) S.S.Ying 1977; Phaius halconensis Ames 1907; Phaius ramosii (Ames) Ames 1915

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995 as Calanthe tubifera; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Wood & Seidenfadden 1992 as Calanthe gracilis

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