Pleione saxicola Tang & F.T.Wang ex S.C.Chen 1987 SECTION Pleione
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Common Name The Lithophytic Pleione - In China Yan Sheng Du Suan Lan
Flower Size 4" [10 cm]
Found in Bhutan to southern China on cliffs along streams as a lithophyte at elevations off 2300 to 2900 as a small sized, cool to cold growing lithophyte with turbinate to ovoid pseudobulbs with a persisitent, short, apical annulus carrying 1 to 2, suboblong, lanceolate or oblanceolate, acute to obtuse, elongate petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on a single flowered inflorescence with warty basal bracts and an oblanceolate, acute floral bract and carrying a flower that does not open well
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Genus Pleione Cribb & Butterfield 1988; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Mountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo ok; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;
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