Bhutanthera himalayana Renz 2001

Photo by © John and Hilary Birks and Ecological and Environmental Change Research Group

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Common Name or Meaning The Himalayan Bhutanthera

Flower Size .35" to .4" [7 to 9 mm]

Found in Bhutan on steep slopes and cliff edges at elevations of 4270 to 4300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial with globose tubers giving rise to an erect basally sheathed, glabrous stem carrying 2, sub-opposite, lanceolate-elliptic, obtuse to subacute, finely reticulate, narrowing below into the basally clasping leaves that blooms in the late spring and summer on an subsecund, terminal, glabrous, .4 to .8" [1 to 2 cm] long, laxly 3 to 4 flowered inflorescence with triangular-lanceolate, acute floral bracts.

Synonyms *Habenaria albomarginata King & Pantl. 1898; Peristylus albomarginatus (King & Pant.) K.Y.Lang 1996

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing ok;

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