Pleione grandiflora (Rolfe) Rolfe 1903 SECTION Pleione
Photos by © David Llewelyn, Koolplants
Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website
Common Name The Large Flowered Pleione - In China Da Hua Du Suan Lan
Flower Size 4" [10 cm]
Found in the Kumaun Himalayas, China and Vietnam on cliff faces on mossy boulders in primary highland cloud forests at elevations of 1500 to 3300 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial and lithophyte with an elongate hersheys kiss shaped pseudobulb carrying a single apical, plicate, thin leaf that blooms as a new growth arises in the spring on a 3" [7.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence carrying a fragrant flower.
Synonyms *Coelogyne grandiflora Rolfe 1903; Pleione barbarae Braem 1999; Pleione harberdii Braem 1999; Pleione moelleri Braem 1999; Pleione mohrii Braem 1999; Pleione pinkepankii Braem & H.Mohr 1989
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 4 1998 photo fide; The Genus Pleione Cribb & Butterfield 1988 drawing fide; Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001 as P barbarae; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001 as P harberdii; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001 as P moelleri; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001 as P mohrii; AOS Bulletin Vol 71 No 12 2002 photo fide; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; 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; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #10 2015 photo fide; LANKESTERIANA 15(1): 7—50. Jeewan Singh Jalal & J. Jayanthi 2015
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