Zeuxine longilabris (Lindl.) Trimen 1885
Photo by © Ranjini Kamath and India Nature Watch Website
Drawing by © Seidenfaden
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Common Name The Long Lipped Zeuxine
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found in India, Assam, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Thailand, Myanmar and Cambodia in mixed deciduous tropical forest growing among grasses at elevations around 200 to 900 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with a lower creeping stem becoming erect and carrying to 5, ovate to ovate-oblong, acute, glabrous, 7 nerved, turning copper-brown colored at blooming, basally rounded leaves that blooms in the late fall and early winter on an erect, terminal, .8 to 3.2" [2 to 8 cm] long, provided with 2 to 3, tubular, distant bracts, few flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, scarious, as long as the ovary floral bracts.
Synonyms Haplochilus longilabris (Lindl.) D.Dietr. 1852; Monochilus affinis Wight 1851; *Monochilus longilabris Lindl. 1840
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Indian Orchids, Guide to Identification and Culture Pradhan 1976; A Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon Vol 2 Dassanayake & Fosberg 1981 drawing fide; Orchids of Nilgiris Joseph 1987 drawing fide; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 32 nr 2 Orchids of Thailand VI Neottiideae Seidenfaden 1978 drawing fide; Orchid Flora of Kamrup District, Assam Iswar Chandra Barua 2001 drawing fide; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing fide; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing ok; A review on Spiranthoideae genera in Arunachal Pradesh Bulletin of Arunachal Forest Research 27 (1&2) : 1-33, Rao 2011; Orchids of Odisha Misra 2014 drawing fide; Lankesteriana Vol 18 [1]: 23–62 Jalal & Jayanth 2018; Orchids of Maharashtra Jalal 2018 photo fide;
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