!Diphylax urceolata (C.B.Clarke) Hook.f. 1889
Photo by © Amit Kotia and the The Flowers of India Website
Photo by © S. Z. Lucksom and the The Orchids of Sikkim and northeastern Himalayas website
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Common Name The Jug-Like Diphylax [refers to the spur] - In China Jian Yao Lan
Flower Size .2 to 1.4" [6 to 9mm]
Found in the Chinese Himalayas, eastern Himalayas, Assam and Nepal on mossy banks in very moist, evergreen, broad-leaved forests at elevations of 1900 to 4270 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial with an erect-curved, slender, glabrous stem with a bladeless basal, tubular sheath and carrying usually a single, narrowly elliptic-oblong, subacute to obtuse, tapering below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the larer summer and fall on an erect, .8 to 1.6" [2 to 4 cm] long, decurved, laxly 7 to 10 flowered inflorescence
Synonyms *Habenaria urceolata C.B.Clarke 1889; Platanthera urceolata (C.B.Clarke) R.M.Bateman 2009
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 as Habenaria urceolata drawing fide; The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Vol IX Part II Duthie 1906 as Habenaria urceolata; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 4 193 to 256 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1973; Indian Orchids, Guide to Identification and Culture Pradhan 1976 drawing fide; Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 2 Part One Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2001 drawing fide; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; The Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing ok; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Mountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 photo fide; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Illustrations Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing ok; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide;
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