Tainia angustifolia (Lindl.) Benth. & Hook.f. 1883
Photos by © Pierre Bonnet from the Orchis project website
Plant and Flowers in situ Thailand Photo courtesy of David Kuehn
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Common Name The Narrow-Leafed Tainia -In China Xia Ye Dai Chun Lan
Flower Size 1.5" [3.75 cm]
Found in Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Yunnan province of China and Vietnam on stony, humus rich soils in sparse woods at elevations of 500 to 1300 meters as a miniature to small sized warm to cool growing epiphyte with a chain of underground, globose to ellipsoid tubers giving rise to an erect, to 12" [30 cm] long, few flowered inflorescence occuring in the late summer and fall.
Synonyms *Ania angustifolia Lindl. 1831; Ascotainia angustifolia (Lindl.) Schltr. 1919; Ascotainia sutepensis Rolfe ex Downie 1925; Eulophia evrardii Guillaumin 1930; Mitopetalum angustifolium Blume 1856; Nephelaphyllum evrardii (Guillaumin) Tang & F.T.Wang 1951; Pachystoma angustifolium Rchb.f. 1857; Tainia sutepensis (Rolfe ex Downie) Seidenf. & Smitinand 1959
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as T sutupensis; The Orchids of Thailand Seidefaden & Smitnand 1965 corrections as T sutepensis drawing fide; Die Orchideen Band 3 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas Liferung #14 820 - 880 1984 as Ania angustifolia; Orchid Monographs Vol 6 Seidenfaden 1992 as Ania angustifolia drawing fide; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen Mori 1997 as Ania angustifolia; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo hmm; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo good; 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 as Ania angustifolia photos fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 2 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 as Ania angustifolia photo fide;
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