Bletilla foliosa (King & Pantl.) Tang & F.T.Wang 1951
Photo by © Khunchai Chang
Drawing by © Seidenfaden
Common Name The Leafy Bletilla
Flower Size .8" 2 cm]
Found in southern Yunnan, Myanmar and Thailand at elevations around 900 meters in savannahs in limestone areas among herbage as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing terrestrial that blooms in the late spring on a lateral inflorescence and carrying flowers with ther tepals tipped with purple the lip white ansd spotted and tipped with purple
Synonyms Arethusa sinensis Rolfe 1903; Bletilla chinensis Schltr. 1914; Bletilla sinensis (Rolfe) Schltr. 1911; Jimensia sinensis (Rolfe) Garay & R.E.Schult. 1958; *Pogonia foliosa King & Pantl. 1897
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
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