Ceratostylis himalaica Hook.f. 1890

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Common Name The Himalayan Ceratostylis

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Found in Assam, the eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Laos, Myanamar, Malaysia, Vietnam and Yunnan China in sparse woods on trees at elevations of 225 to 1900 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a pendant, branched stem enveloped by imbricate, scarious sheaths and giving rise to a single, fleshy, linear-oblong, obliquely notched apically, acute, shortly petiolate leaf that blooms in the late spring on a subcapitate, 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Ceratostylis ritaia Schltr. 1922; Eria ramosissima Wall. ex Hkr. 1890; Ritaia himalaica (Hook.f.) King & Pantl. 1898

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen & Mori 1997; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002;