Pleione scopulorum W.W.Sm. 1921 SECTION Humiles

Photo courtesy of Botanická zahrada a arboretum Mendelova zemedelská a lesnická univerzita v Brne, Brno, Czech

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Common Name The Branching Pleione - In China Er Yu Du Suan Lan

Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]

Found in the eastern Himalayas, Bhutan, Myanmar, Tibet and northwestern Yunnan province of China on damp grassy and stony slopes as a terrestro-lithophyte at elevations of 2800 to 4200 meters as a small sized, cold growing lithophyte on ledges of cliffs and humus covered boulders with a green, usually ovoid, slightly obliqu, tapering at the apex into a long neck pseudobulb and carrying 2, apical, developing at flowering, lanceolate, oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, papery, attenuate below into the petiolate-like base leaves that blooms in the later spring on an erect, 4 to 10 " [10 to 25 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Bletilla scopulorum (W.W. Sm.) Schltr. 1924