Zeuxine pulchra King & Pantl. 1896
Photo by A N Rao and Bulletin of Arunachal Forest Research 24 (1&2) : 25-28, FOUR NEW RECORDS OF ORCHIDS TO ARUNACHAL PRADESH A N Rao 2008
TYPE Drawing by R Pantling and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria
LATER
Common Name The Beautiful Zeuxine
Flower Size .3" to .4" [.8 to 1 cm]
Found in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh state of India, and the eastern Himalayas at elevations around 2100 meters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with a glabrous stem carrying 3 to 4, crowded, ovate, subacute, upper surface blackish purple with a white band on the mid rib, narrowing below into the short, broad, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the later summer on an erect, sparsely pubescent, crowded, glabrous, 4" [10 cm] long, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, membraneous, sparsely pubescent, shorter than the pubescent ovary floral bracts.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 # 9 1958 drawing fide; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; Indian Orchids, Guide to Identification and Culture Pradhan 1976 drawing fide; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Bulletin of Arunachal Forest Research 24 (1&2) : 25-28, FOUR NEW RECORDS OF ORCHIDS TO ARUNACHAL PRADESH A N Rao 2008 photo fide; A review on Spiranthoideae genera in Arunachal Pradesh Bulletin of Arunachal Forest Research 27 (1&2) : 1-33, Rao 2011 photo fide
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